Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.
Quotes to Explore
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
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It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.
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There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.
