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.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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  • Knowledge
  • Software

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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  • Members

• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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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.

  

  Ulrich Walter
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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.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
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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.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
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  • Entertainment

• 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.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• 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.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Data

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Think
  • Athlete

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
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• When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • 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?

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
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  • Never

• 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.

  

  Kate Adie
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• I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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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.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Time

• I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • World
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Children
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  • Stop

• One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were that grew up there versus, you know, my suburban upbringing. They have this innate resilience and toughness to them, and they're incredibly self-sufficient, usually from a pretty young age.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
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• When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

  

  Marvin Ammori
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• I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

  

  Doris Lessing
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