Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I want to be a major force.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.
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Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.
