Quotes About Jakarta

#1. operations for Clocktower Jakarta, massaged

A.G. Riddle

#2. 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

#3. To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

Joko Widodo

#4. 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

#5. 'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#6. I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Raymond Bonner

#7. 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

#8. Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

Aaron Klein

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

Anatoli Boukreev

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

Annie Jacobsen

#13. I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

John Prescott

#14. I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine.

Tamara Summers

#15. I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Shinzo Abe

#16. When you love someone, do it right and love them forever. Don't leave them wondering the whole time when it's going to run out or expire.

Nicole Williams

#17. Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Edmund Blunden

#18. 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

#19. I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#20. That should have been my strategy! By the time I've worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I'm watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

Suzanne Collins

#21. 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

#22. When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. 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

#24. There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

Azealia Banks

#26. Any system described by a power law [ ... ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Clay Shirky

#27. How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#28. 14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present.

Natalie Goldberg