Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: indonesian
  • Birth: February 6, 1925 - April 30, 2006

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When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors are hilarious.

Stephanie March

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I practice going backward all the time.

Stipe Miocic

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I think the English are an unbelievably musical nation and always have been.

Simon Rattle

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Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Trishelle Cannatella

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The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.

Robert Dallek

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I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

Mary Steenburgen

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I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Joy Harjo

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I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

Jason Mraz

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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Joseph Butler

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I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

Cornelia Parker

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People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

William Wells Brown

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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Placido Domingo

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