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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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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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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The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
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I like woman who doesn't necessarily care if other people like her. She is she who she is and figures people can take it or leave it. What I do like is a woman who has the guts to tell exactly as she feels. It's not appealing when a woman dresses to please a man. It's way more attractive if she has her own distinct style and wears what she feels best in.
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There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
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There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
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If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you.
