Joko Widodo Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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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.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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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.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.
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Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
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In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.
