Doris Lessing Quotes
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Quotes to Explore
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
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I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
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The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
