Andrea Hirata Quotes
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
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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.'
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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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.
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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.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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.
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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.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
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Hitler was never a socialist.
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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
