Doris Lessing Quotes
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
Pam Bondi
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
Ha-Joon Chang
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
Floyd Skloot
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Oscar Wilde
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
Mallory Ortberg
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
J. J. Watt
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
Lisa Ling
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
Imran Khan
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
Abraham Pais
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
Barton Gellman
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I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.
Dominick Dunne
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
Doris Lessing