Jakarta Quotes

• Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Cities, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Twists, Chicago

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Ive lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that theres so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

  Tony Fernandes

  Indonesia, Bali

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• I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Country, Travel, Years

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• I absolutely love Indonesian restaurants! We have many Indonesian restaurants in Jakarta and I'd like to be able to visit all of them to taste their food. When I visit a restaurant, I get so many references for food and am inspired to create Indonesian cuisine in my own way.

  Rinrin Marinka

  Cuisine, Able, Way

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

  Andrea Hirata

  Sports, Children, News

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