When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.
Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.
My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't afraid to be in musicals.
