Sukarno Quotes
We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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'There is no God,' the wicked saith,'And truly it’s a blessing,For what He might have done with usIt’s better only guessing.'
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I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.
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It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I'm getting there, and I'm proud of that.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.
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Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.
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We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.
