Doris Lessing Quotes
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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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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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.
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I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.
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I never stopped reading.
