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Ciputra Quotes

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: indonesian
Birth: 1931

Topics

Innovation Dream Will Become

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

Day Compromise Budget Back Election

If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.

Mistake Gambling Lose Sometimes Will

If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.

Good Night Small Charity Doing Long

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

Religion Ethics People Values Say

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

Universe Trying Bad Imagine Keep

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

Mind Me Writing Pen Back Find

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

Week Watch West Would Fan Wing

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality Always Likely Probable

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

Day Deep Process End Of The Day End

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Marriage Police Human Incompetence

I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.

Fear Think You Too Much Never Break

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

Pedro Almodovar

Work Me Singing Meaning Talk Need

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