Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
Eden Hazard -
You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
Daniel Bryan -
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
Rachel Nichols -
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
Pat Robertson -
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
Viktor Orban -
I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
Abbey Clancy
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman -
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
Fiona Apple -
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
Tamzin Merchant -
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
Iris Apfel
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
Olivia DeJonge -
That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
Kajol -
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt -
Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
Natalie Massenet -
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp -
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
Marty Meehan -
There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
Johan Rockstrom -
What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.
Francois Hollande -
We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer