Doris Lessing Quotes
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
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What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
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I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
