Edwin Soeryadjaya Quotes
If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.
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I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
