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I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea. — Tim Hunt

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. — Randall Park

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films. — Lee Byung-hun

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. — John Bolton

The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change. — Felix Abt

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton

If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass. — Tucker Elliot

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea ... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. — Shane Smith

Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea. — Ban Ki-moon

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. — Richard Linklater

Working in Korea with the talent and staff there was very eye-opening. I was in awe of everyone's talent, passion, and love for the process. — Brian Tee

Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses. — Conan O'Brien

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam. — Michael Caine

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S. — Park Chan-wook

In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV. — Hee-seop Choi

The look of a smug teacher is priceless. — Tucker Elliot

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ. — Jonathan Gruber

All of North Korea is a jail. — Kim Young-sam

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style. — Shu Qi

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby. — John Oliver

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea. — Robert Benton

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. — Yukiya Amano

[ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity! — Kang Chol-Hwan

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. — Kim Young-sam

They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs. — Ann Brashares

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. — Mitchell Reiss

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet. — Barbara Demick

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea. — Rick Yune

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice. — Tucker Elliot

We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. — Sergei Lavrov

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. — Kim Dae-jung

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. — Marilyn Monroe

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. — Kim Dae-jung

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. — Douglas MacArthur

I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea. — Mark Kirk

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In North Korea, you don't own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there. — Barbara Demick

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state. — Brian Reynolds Myers

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it. — Tina Fey

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure. — Brian Reynolds Myers

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country. — Edwin O. Reischauer

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? — Young-Ha Kim

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. — Don DeLillo

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record. — Ashton Eaton

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States. — Elise Hu

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. — Psy

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope. — Tucker Elliot

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right. — Jim Bouton

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. — Ha-Joon Chang

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? — Greg Giraldo

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. — Barbara Demick

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb, — Mohamed ElBaradei

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea. — Ari Fleischer

We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan. — Shinzo Abe

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. — Rick Smolan

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran. — Mohamed ElBaradei

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. — Lee Myung-bak

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. — Cathy Freeman

Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich. — Lee Myung-bak

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all. — Peter Scott

During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public. — Kim Yuna

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn't matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch. — Barbara Demick

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside. — Kim Dae-jung

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. — Ted Lieu

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out. — Noam Chomsky

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea. — Madeleine Albright

If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex. — Euny Hong

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. — Andrew Young

Professional Gaming, or e-Sports as it's now called, is a multi-million dollar industry in Korea. You can even get a bachelor's degree in e-Sports. — Anonymous

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. — Richard Armitage

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. — Barbara Demick

North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.' — Stephen Colbert

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose. — Dennis Rodman

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking. — Kim Ji-woon

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea. — Joichi Ito

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. — David Alan Grier

Pets hardly exist in North Korea because most have been eaten. — Mike Kim

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea. — Bong Joon-ho

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless. — Tucker Elliot

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. — Horst Koehler

In Korea we say that if a person cannot close his eyes in death, it is because he hasn't fulfilled something in this world. — Yeonmi Park

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States. — Mike Huckabee

I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup. — Luis Suarez

(The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.) — Barbara Demick

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. — Lee Myung-bak

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. — Chinua Achebe

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. — Kang Chol-Hwan

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. — Jennifer Armintrout

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family. — Lee Myung-bak

Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries. — Stef Wertheimer

Turn off the light!

Who?

Not me,

but you! — Kim Da-Jeong

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. — Mitchell Reiss

Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore. — Stef Wertheimer

None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness. — Gerard Way

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. — Psy

I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it. — Tim Hunt