Doris Lessing Quotes
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
Bailee Madison
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
Kapil Sibal
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
Becca Tobin
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Kate Atkinson
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
Iris Johansen
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
Barton Gellman
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
Yahoo Serious
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
L. Neil Smith
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
Maisie Williams
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
Zhang Ziyi
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I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
Randy Couture
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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
Yann Martel
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim
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I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'
Jason Bateman
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For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
John Burnham Schwartz
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing