Doris Lessing Quotes
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
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Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.
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I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
