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.
Samuel Hopkins -
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
Nadia Comaneci -
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
Jack Levine -
I've always been extremely physically active.
Danai Gurira
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
Jack Ma -
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.
Zana Marjanovic -
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.
Harbhajan Singh -
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
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.
Barry Silbert -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.
Adam Grant -
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Ulrich Beck -
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.
Ornette Coleman -
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson -
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Dan Stevens -
I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
Dalia Mogahed
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Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
Karen Chance -
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
Ben Okri -
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
Joan Ganz Cooney -
Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool.
The Weeknd -
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
Charles Caleb Colton -
I never stopped reading.
Doris Lessing