Doris Lessing Quotes
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
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I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'
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I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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People have the right to say what they want to.
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
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I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
