Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes
It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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We belong on the cutting edge of innovation. That's an idea as old as America itself. We're a nation of tinkerers, and dreamers, and believers in a better tomorrow.
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Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The very air in which you live is an inspiration.
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Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.
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It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
