Indonesia Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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

  Country, Groups, Doe

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

  Fisher Stevens

  Sexist, Sexism, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Running, Imf, Thailand

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• The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Friendship, Doe, Joints

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Colonialism

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• 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

  Philippines, Nests, Bigs

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2002.

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• The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Loving Life, Race, Egypt

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• In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John J. Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Borders

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• Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Economy

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• I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

  Angela Kinsey

  Art, School, Theatre

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• Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Awards, Important

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• Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

  Erma Bombeck

  Travel, Play, Drivers

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• 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

  Military, Real, Renaissance

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Heat And Humidity, People, Lovely

  "THE HANGOVER PART II On Set Interview with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Director Todd Phillips". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

  Sebastian Gorka

  Real, Fake, News

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men

  Reza Aslan

  Men, Equal, Percent

  "Reza Aslan: Maher's "Facile" Generalizations Of Islam The Definition Of Bigotry". CNN interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2014.

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• If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

  Kevin Hart

  Dubai, Australia, People

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• Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Mother, School, Boys

  "Obama’s College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'" by Wayne Allyn Root, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Men, Kenya

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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

  Jakarta, Bali

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• I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

  Julie Taymor

  Years, Magic, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

  Paul Walker

  Sri Lanka, Earthquakes, Doers

  "Speed considered a factor in death of 'Fast and Furious' actor Paul Walker" by Becky Bratu, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. December 2, 2013.

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