Edwin Soeryadjaya Quotes

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

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SadPeopleWorldProudThinkYou

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

Jill Scott

MotherJourneyMeListeningTalking

I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money.

Jen Sincero

MoneyExperienceCareConfusedMore

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

GratitudeJobManVirtueBeginsHe

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Louise Erdrich

FatherMotherHomeAgeMountain

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Jason Gann

FunnyMedicineThinkLongYouDown

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Diana Nyad

DreamsTimeYour DreamsMeNameYou

On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California.

Chelsea Manning

ChangeAgeHopeNightPolitical

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

Chuck Jones

ThinkBunnyBugs

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

Brantley Gilbert

OpportunityMyselfWritingAnything

Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court - or any Supreme Court - has ever made. It is distorting our political process and corrupting our government.

Brad Schneider

HistoryGovernmentBelievePolitical

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Bradley Whitford

FaithBelieveStoryAudienceOrder

I just want to work with wonderful people.

Anya Taylor-Joy

WorkPeopleWantWonderful People

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