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Indonesia Quotes By Toba Beta

Indonesia has vast region with so many islands, comprises so many ethnics, tongues and cultures that make it so hard to be recognized as a single nation.
However, we do recognize it as Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. — Toba Beta

Indonesia Quotes By Eric Hoffer

The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese
and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. — Eric Hoffer

Indonesia Quotes By Dave Barry

Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores. — Dave Barry

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Raymond Bonner

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you. — Raymond Bonner

Indonesia Quotes By Tariq Ramadan

Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country. — Tariq Ramadan

Indonesia Quotes By Goenawan Mohamad

Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error. — Goenawan Mohamad

Indonesia Quotes By Toba Beta

Politics is always related to the history and genealogy. — Toba Beta

Indonesia Quotes By Richard Lloyd Parry

Just before we left, Jean said, 'You know what else? Falintil is here. They're not armed, but they're keeping an eye on things. Can you spot them?' I peered among the hill people, and thought that perhaps I could: an older man with an air of authority; a young man with a vigilant look about him, moving from group to group, appearing to direct and advise the other voters. I couldn't be sure. But that was Falintil, after all: never wholly present nor completely absent, a sense of reassurance rather than a physical force: something watching over you. — Richard Lloyd Parry

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Stephen Fry

If only at school, geography teachers, surely the most scoffed and pilloried class of pedagogue there is, if only they had concentrated less on rift valleys, trig points and the major exports of Indonesia and more on the fact that geography could promise a classy royal society with the sexiest lecture theatre in the land. — Stephen Fry

Indonesia Quotes By Marty Natalegawa

There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations. — Marty Natalegawa

Indonesia Quotes By Tucker Elliot

It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone. — Tucker Elliot

Indonesia Quotes By Michael Scheuer

We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes." — Michael Scheuer

Indonesia Quotes By Sukarno

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world — Sukarno

Indonesia Quotes By John Taylor Gatto

Limiting the power of government, in order to liberate the individual, was the great American revolutionary insight. Too much cooperation, avoiding conflict from ordinary people, these things aren't acceptable in America although they may suit China, Indonesia, Britain, or Germany just fine. In America the absence of conflict is a sign of regression toward a global mean, hardly progress by our lights if you've seen much of the governance of the rest of the world where common people are crushed like annoying insects if they argue. — John Taylor Gatto

Indonesia Quotes By Zadie Smith

Most of us have complicated backstories, messy histories, multiple narratives. It was a high-wire strategy, for Obama, this invocation of our collective human messiness. His enemies latched on to its imprecision, emphasizing the exotic, un-American nature of Dream City, this ill-defined place where you could be from Hawaii and Kenya, Kansas and Indonesia all at the same time, where you could jive talk like a street hustler and orate like a senator. — Zadie Smith

Indonesia Quotes By Pankaj Mishra

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

Indonesia Quotes By Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Speech is silver. Silence is golden. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Indonesia Quotes By Sukarno

This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke! — Sukarno

Indonesia Quotes By Sukarno

It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state). — Sukarno

Indonesia Quotes By Michelle Stuart

In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows. — Michelle Stuart

Indonesia Quotes By Amartya Sen

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, -Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa-to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that? — Amartya Sen

Indonesia Quotes By Joshua Oppenheimer

The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia Quotes By Joko Widodo

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia. — Joko Widodo

Indonesia Quotes By Eduardo Paes

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list. — Eduardo Paes

Indonesia Quotes By Jimmy Carter

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government. — Jimmy Carter

Indonesia Quotes By Kerri Kasem

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you. — Kerri Kasem

Indonesia Quotes By Marc Maron

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. — Marc Maron

Indonesia Quotes By Grace Hightower

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee. — Grace Hightower

Indonesia Quotes By Joesoef Isak

Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change — Joesoef Isak

Indonesia Quotes By Andre Gunder Frank

The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first round the world recession again to begin in East Asia and spread from there to the West, instead of vice versa. That marked the beginnings of the return back 360 degrees around the world of the world economic center to Asia where it had always been before those two eighty-year period of temporary Western ascendance. The stock market crash in Hong Kong and the devaluation of the Thai baht and the Indonesian rupia took only 80 seconds to make themselves felt in the London City and on New York's Wall Street. How much of a cultural lag do we still need for popular perception and social theory to catch up with global reality? — Andre Gunder Frank

Indonesia Quotes By Tucker Elliot

The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent. — Tucker Elliot

Indonesia Quotes By Toba Beta

No Woman, No Leader. — Toba Beta

Indonesia Quotes By Joe Taslim

My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I'm a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature - and I love the beach. — Joe Taslim

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Dylan Walsh

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse. — Dylan Walsh

Indonesia Quotes By Nicholas D. Kristof

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Indonesia Quotes By Pankaj Mishra

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion. — Pankaj Mishra

Indonesia Quotes By Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

There are only a handful of countries that have experienced what Indonesia has endured: financial crisis, political instability, separatism, ethnic conflicts, terrorism and natural disasters. Given the array of challenges that confronted us, what Indonesia has become today is nothing short of remarkable. Indonesia today is a country with a different Islam, democracy and modernity can go hand in hand. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Indonesia Quotes By Tony Abbott

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later. — Tony Abbott

Indonesia Quotes By Fisher Stevens

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia. — Fisher Stevens

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make? — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest. — Edwin Soeryadjaya

Indonesia Quotes By Lee Kuan Yew

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. — Lee Kuan Yew

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Do you want me to call the internet police for you? — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Pramoedya Ananta Toer

There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesia Quotes By Joshua Oppenheimer

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing? — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Jean-Pascal Tricoire

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see. — Jean-Pascal Tricoire

Indonesia Quotes By Eka Kurniawan

Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve. — Eka Kurniawan

Indonesia Quotes By Raymond Bonner

Golf in Indonesia has something else to offer: ways to make you forget the last four hours and take away the aches. Nearly every course has a spa - hot tub, cold tub, sauna and massage. — Raymond Bonner

Indonesia Quotes By Naomi Klein

Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2 — Naomi Klein

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By John Green

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material. — John Green

Indonesia Quotes By Rafael Cruz

We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy. — Rafael Cruz

Indonesia Quotes By Raymond Bonner

Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise. — Raymond Bonner

Indonesia Quotes By Dorit Sliverman

could see people standing on the beach staring at the wave, immobilized, in a trance, as if they were watching a movie. They didn't think that what was happening in the ocean would reach the shore. Even if they ran as fast as they could, they wouldn't have been able to escape it. They were screening a new clip from Thailand or Indonesia. It showed a little boy climbing up the trunk of a tree as the tidal wave flattened the tall palm trees. "The earthquake started near the Sumatra Islands in Indonesia. — Dorit Sliverman

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Michael Scheuer

The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other. For the first time those men had an awareness of the Islamic world as a whole, not of just Egypt or Algeria or Indonesia, but of what Muslims call the Uma, the Islamic community. And that's an extraordinarily important thing. And that emanated in Pakistan. — Michael Scheuer

Indonesia Quotes By Michael Franti

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. — Michael Franti

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By John Malkovich

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. — John Malkovich

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Toba Beta

When bad news sells, money politics buys. — Toba Beta

Indonesia Quotes By R.E. Elson

The word 'Indonesia' was first manufactured in 1850 in the form 'Indu-nesians' by the English traveler and social observer George Samuel Windsor Earl. He was searching for an ethnographic term to describe 'that branch of the Polynesian race inhabiting the Indian Archipelago', or 'the brown races of the Indian Archipelago'. — R.E. Elson

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Jeff Greenfield

In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. — Jeff Greenfield

Indonesia Quotes By Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement. — Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

Indonesia Quotes By Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesia Quotes By Ed Helms

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal. — Ed Helms

Indonesia Quotes By Linda Weaver Clarke

Someone else is looking for him?"
"That's right, two men." Mrs. Brody softly laughed and said "They look just like those men in that alien movie. Dressed in black suits and sunglasses. They don't have much of a sense of humor though. When they came to my door, I asked them if they were seeking aliens and I assured them I wasn't one. They didn't laugh at my joke. — Linda Weaver Clarke

Indonesia Quotes By Xanana Gusmao

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released. — Xanana Gusmao

Indonesia Quotes By Forrest Curran

Is the sunrise of Mount Fuji more beautiful from the one you see in the countryside a bit closer to home? Are the beaches of Indonesia really that much more serene than those we have in our own countries? The point I make is not to downplay the marvels of the world, but to highlight the notion of the human tendency in our failure to see the beauty in our daily lives when we take off the travel goggles when we are home. It is the preconceived notion of a place that creates the difference in perception of environments rather than the actual geological location. — Forrest Curran

Indonesia Quotes By Tony Abbott

I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just non-negotiable. Maintaining a strong security network is just non-negotiable. I think the Indonesians understand that. — Tony Abbott

Indonesia Quotes By Julie Taymor

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. — Julie Taymor

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Rick Santorum

I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims. — Rick Santorum

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Joshua Oppenheimer

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Linda Weaver Clarke

Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ... — Linda Weaver Clarke

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By John Lloyd

Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau. — John Lloyd

Indonesia Quotes By Robert F. Kennedy

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims? — Robert F. Kennedy

Indonesia Quotes By Mark Thomas

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?' — Mark Thomas

Indonesia Quotes By Shashi Tharoor

The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later, — Shashi Tharoor

Indonesia Quotes By Al Gore

We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia. — Al Gore

Indonesia Quotes By Stephen Kinzer

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation. — Stephen Kinzer

Indonesia Quotes By Sukarno

If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms. — Sukarno

Indonesia Quotes By Cael Sanderson

The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history. — Cael Sanderson

Indonesia Quotes By Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Indonesia Quotes By Naomi Klein

Thomas Friedman, in his best-selling book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, declared that what happened in Asia wasn't a crisis at all. "I believe globalization did us all a favor by melting down the economies of Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Brazil in the 1990s, because it laid bare a lot of rotten practices and institutions, — Naomi Klein

Indonesia Quotes By Richard Stallman

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. — Richard Stallman

Indonesia Quotes By Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia can hold regular elections, but if the laws do not apply to the most powerful elements in society, then there is no rule of law and no genuine democracy. The country will never become a true democracy until it takes serious steps to end impunity. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By S.A. Tawks

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country. — S.A. Tawks

Indonesia Quotes By Adrian Perrig

An interesting fact is that the town of Bau-Bau in Sulawesi, Indonesia, selected Hangeul in 2009 to write the Cia-Cia language.2 Who knows, maybe Hangeul will become one of the universal phonetic languages in the world! — Adrian Perrig