Top 100 Indonesia Quotes
#1. Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.
Ciputra
#3. To the north the Indonesian Air Force strafed Australian ships that were attempting to repel refugees from Indonesia and Timor and Papua. In
James Bradley
#4. 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
#5. as many as one billion frogs are harvested for consumption in Indonesia and China each year.
Nicholas Belardes
#6. Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#7. 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
#8. My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.
S.A. Tawks
#9. Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.
Sukarno
#10. Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#11. We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#12. I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.
Rick Santorum
#13. There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.
S.A. Tawks
#15. Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.
S.A. Tawks
#16. Indonesia is home to the cobra burger, which isn't just a catchy name: it's made with real cobra meat.
Cary McNeal
#17. I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.
S.A. Tawks
#18. 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
#19. The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.
Tucker Elliot
#20. Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen?
Shawn Achor
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change
Joesoef Isak
#24. I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.
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#25. The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.
Edwin Soeryadjaya
#26. As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
Pankaj Mishra
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.
S.A. Tawks
#31. Japan has consistently remained a friend of Indonesia since the end of World War II and has regarded cooperation with Indonesia as a top priority.
Shinzo Abe
#32. Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
Conrad Black
#33. I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#35. I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.
Mohammad Hatta
#36. We don't want any pot-smoking vaginas because that's disgusting. And I saw it once in Indonesia, and I've never been able to get it out of my head.
Doug Benson
#37. It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
Tony Abbott
#38. The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,
Shashi Tharoor
#39. I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.
S.A. Tawks
#40. We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
Marc Maron
#41. Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.
S.A. Tawks
#42. Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?
S.A. Tawks
#43. One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.
Martin Jacques
#44. However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.
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#45. Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.
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#46. Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time.
Douglas Adams
#47. When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.
S.A. Tawks
#48. 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
#49. It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.
S.A. Tawks
#51. The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
Jeffrey Sachs
#52. Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.
S.A. Tawks
#53. 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
#54. Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ...
Linda Weaver Clarke
#55. Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
S.A. Tawks
#56. Maia, we now know, is going to land in Indonesia. They
Ben H. Winters
#57. In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
Barack Obama
#58. 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
#59. The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.
Rob Machado
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. They said Indonesia was a failure," Al Pope reflected bitterly. "But we knocked the shit out of them. We killed thousands of Communists, even though half of them probably didn't even know what Communism meant.
Tim Weiner
#63. All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?
S.A. Tawks
#64. Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
Taufik Hidayat
#65. We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
#66. I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
Sufjan Stevens
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I don't like it when Christianity and western cultures are used as propaganda to sway impoverished Muslims into becoming self-detonating radicals.
Tucker Elliot
#71. I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.
Xanana Gusmao
#72. Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
S.A. Tawks
#73. Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.
Sukarno
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
S.A. Tawks
#78. 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
#79. I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.
Andrew Jack
#80. 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 Sweeney
#81. I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#82. 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
#83. I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Richard Stallman
#84. 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
#85. I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#87. I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
Tony Abbott
#88. Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?
S.A. Tawks
#89. If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#90. Upbuilding is necessary for the uplifting of our soul ... Indonesia must be a strong country packed with factories. This is our utopia.
Sukarno
#91. A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you've done.
S.A. Tawks
#92. 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
#93. China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.
Mark Carwardine
#94. I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.
S.A. Tawks
#95. My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.
S.A. Tawks
#97. By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.
S.A. Tawks
#98. The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#99. I'd see the arrow. I'd think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.
Tucker Elliot
#100. That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.
S.A. Tawks
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