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Sri Mulyani Indrawati Quotes

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: indonesian
Birth: August 26, 1962

Topics

Community Challenge Priorities Own

I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.

John Cameron Mitchell

Regret Better Feel Year Person Done

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Andrew Solomon

Strength Depression Weakness Mark

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Tori Amos

Find Sometimes Touch Listen Own Get

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Tom Stoppard

People Doing You More Something Get

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Family Brother Sister Pretty Come

It's OK showing yourself some love.

Mary J. Blige

Love Yourself OK Some Showing

My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.

Lisa Graff

Love Memories Tree Together Baking

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Lisa See

Age Feet Interesting Never Things

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.

Joshua Foer

Rest Remember Year Play New Kind

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

Chely Wright

Girl Age Me Gay Achieve Young

You step in a divot or a hole you're not expecting to be there, and it can throw off your timing or your approach.

Brooke Sweat

Step You Timing Off Hole Approach

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

Prince Charles

Car Character Think You Create More