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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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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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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We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.
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On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, 'Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I'm never going to get any work because they're never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.' I've always said, 'Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it'll come.'
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I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
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I never stopped reading.
