#hotel

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as 'duck.' One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy—they wouldn't tell me the breed—but then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadn't seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dog-meat #dogs #famine #hotels #korean-cuisine

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change. ↗

— Harold Nicholas

#black #change #entertained #experienced #horrible

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go! ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#area #desire #down #ever #go

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#changes #come #family #get #hotel

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. ↗

— William Shatner

#back #broke #circuit #divorced #early

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time. ↗

— Hope Solo

#enjoy #hotel #hotel room #i #just

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#bad news #died #exclusive #fire #footage

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#big deal #bought #california #deal #did

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical. ↗

— Jeff Mangum

#song-lyrics #music

when designing a hotel I don’t think about my client, I focus on my client’s client, meaning the person that will use the hotel ↗

— Aurelio Vazquez Duran

#hotel #design