Doris Lessing Quotes
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.
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When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
