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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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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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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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.
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Listen more than you talk.
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Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
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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.
