Doris Lessing Quotes
Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Quotes to Explore
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.
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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
