Doris Lessing Quotes
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.Doris Lessing
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
J. G. Ballard -
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro -
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.
Laila Ali -
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.
Maimonides -
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner -
Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
Sam Wood
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Jack Nicklaus -
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
Sam Altman -
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
Carlo Rubbia -
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
Campbell Scott
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
Saint Francis de Sales -
'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.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy -
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
Daniel Dennett -
I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
Salman Rushdie
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
Alaa Al Aswany -
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine -
God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.
R. A. Torrey -
Anger is a wasted emotion.
Edwidge Danticat -
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
Doris Lessing