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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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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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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Women are amazing lovers.
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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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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
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Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
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I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.
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She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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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.
