Doris Lessing Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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I owe the public nothing.
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«The decisions are made in the moment they are made.»
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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No pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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'As in the focus of a magnifying glass, play contains all developmental tendencies in a condensed form and is itself a major source of development.'
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I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.
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Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
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To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
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Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
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I have seven rescue dogs.
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When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.
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I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.
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I am your original autodidact.
