Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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I bat righty.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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I always try to stay aggressive. I always use my strengths and always work on my weaknesses to get better. That's just who I am.
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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.
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There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
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For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.
