Doris Lessing Quotes
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
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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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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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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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What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
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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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I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look - it's definitely more extravagant and more artistic.
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It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.
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It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
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For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.
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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.
