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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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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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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I don't even take aspirin.
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It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
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Breath of Heaven breathe on us.
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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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.
