Sukarno Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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But I think that every time you hurt somebody you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.
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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
