Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
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We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
