5 Quotes Tagged: 1997

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I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
Grant Morrison, Scottish comic book writer and playwright
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consumerism television 1997 bread-and-circus
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Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine — some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone — but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.
Christopher Hitchens, English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
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kim-jong-il north-korea death propaganda 1995 1996 1998 aid famine 1997 north-korean-famine kim-il-sung
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Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.
William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
1997 george-laughead
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