Andrea Hirata Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.
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I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on the night of 9/11.
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I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
