North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea’s creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. Barbara Demick Read Quote
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn’t. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said ‘Yes.’ I was adventurous. Jaclyn Smith Read Quote
The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on ‘The Big C’ has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she’s warned me what to expect. Gabriel Basso Read Quote
Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They’re all conversating, and we’re just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it’s not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it. Stephen Marley Read Quote
Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush’s desire to project power and Obama’s skepticism. David Ignatius Read Quote
The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction. Ellen Datlow Read Quote
I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line. Jasper Carrott Read Quote
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants – one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes – is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it. John Lanchester Read Quote
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds. Rudolf Steiner Read Quote
