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 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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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
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You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.
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Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
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I grew up in a very liberal place.
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No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.
