Eka Kurniawan Quotes

#1. Why," Comrade Yono couldn't stop himself from asking, "do you care so much about those newspapers?" "Because the Russian Revolution would never have succeeded if the Bolsheviks hadn't had their newspaper.

Eka Kurniawan

#2. It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck.

Eka Kurniawan

#3. If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.

Eka Kurniawan

#4. Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Sydney Smith

#5. Don't sleep with people who don't read.

John Waters

#6. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Jeremy Narby

#7. Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless.

George Vecsey

#8. Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere.

Giorgio Moroder

#9. 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