Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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The news that a third British citizen has died from his wounds from the attack in Iraq is terrible -- terrible for his family and for his community -- and it is something which all of us condemn unreservedly.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
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Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.
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Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'
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Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
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If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you.
