Doris Lessing Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
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I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.
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People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.
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Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.
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It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
