Doris Lessing Quotes
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
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My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
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Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.
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Die Ros ist ohn warum; sie blühet weil sie blühet, Sie acht nicht ihrer selbst, fragt nicht, ob man sie siehet.
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If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?
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There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.
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When things are going well on the pitch, it is because I know I have the coach behind me.
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
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What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
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I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
