Doris Lessing Quotes
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I didn't have a record player.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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Sometimes, I think, with bands the record company is actually the guilty party with the way they set the record out.
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Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
