Doris Lessing Quotes
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths.
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I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
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I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
