Top 100 Indonesia's Quotes
#1. Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra
#2. Good times make bad policy. - Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2
Naomi Klein
#3. 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
#4. In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.
S.A. Tawks
#5. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.
S.A. Tawks
#6. I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.
S.A. Tawks
#7. She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.
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#8. 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
#9. A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.
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#10. Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.
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#11. She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty.
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#12. The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.
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#13. 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
#14. Anxiety's already tingling my skin.
S.A. Tawks
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.
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#18. In 2014, the Earth's gravity is weakest in southern India (blue spot) and strongest in Iceland and Indonesia (red spots).
Kip S. Thorne
#19. Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.
S.A. Tawks
#20. Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.
Joko Widodo
#21. Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives.
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#22. I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter.
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#23. 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
#24. By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.
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#25. He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.
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#26. 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
#27. President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess
#28. There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.
S.A. Tawks
#29. Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.
S.A. Tawks
#30. Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'.
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#31. You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on.
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#32. I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.
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#33. 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
#34. I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
Natalie Cole
#35. I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.
S.A. Tawks
#36. I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
John Howard
#37. I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.
Tony Fernandes
#38. I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.
S.A. Tawks
#39. What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.
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#40. Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein
#41. I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.
S.A. Tawks
#42. One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.
Jim Gibbons
#43. You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.
S.A. Tawks
#44. Do you want me to call the internet police for you?
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#45. Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.
Andrew Jack
#46. In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.
James W. Loewen
#47. When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing?
S.A. Tawks
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Don't be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn't mean it's okay to act like it.
Christian Simamora
#51. 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
#53. Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.
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#54. I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.
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#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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.
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#58. I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.
S.A. Tawks
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Indonesia is home to the cobra burger, which isn't just a catchy name: it's made with real cobra meat.
Cary McNeal
#64. Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.
S.A. Tawks
#65. Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?
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#66. There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.
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#67. Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. as many as one billion frogs are harvested for consumption in Indonesia and China each year.
Nicholas Belardes
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.
Ciputra
#77. 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
#78. I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.
S.A. Tawks
#79. Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.
S.A. Tawks
#80. That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.
S.A. Tawks
#81. By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.
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#83. My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.
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#84. 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'.
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#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?
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#90. Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
S.A. Tawks
#91. Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
S.A. Tawks
#92. 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
#93. All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?
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#94. Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
S.A. Tawks
#95. Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.
S.A. Tawks
#96. It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.
S.A. Tawks
#97. When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.
S.A. Tawks
#98. Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.
S.A. Tawks
#99. However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.
S.A. Tawks
#100. 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
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