Doris Lessing Quotes
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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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As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
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If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
