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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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
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I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
