Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.
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When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
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It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law.
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When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.
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During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.
