Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.
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I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.
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... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
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My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them.
