Andrea Hirata Quotes
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
Quotes to Explore
-
The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
-
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
-
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
-
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
-
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
-
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
-
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
-
My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
-
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
-
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
-
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
-
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
-
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
-
I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
-
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
-
My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.
-
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
-
I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.
-
What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
-
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
