Andrea Hirata Quotes
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.
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We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.
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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.
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I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
