Andris Piebalgs Quotes
Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.

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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
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The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.
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Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
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There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
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Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.