Doris Lessing Quotes
Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.Doris Lessing
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
Kacey Musgraves -
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. Wells -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
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.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale -
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
Madeleine Stowe -
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?
Adam Mansbach -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
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.'
Magic Johnson -
I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
J. J. Watt
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge -
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Armstrong Williams -
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle -
What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.
Andrew Combe -
I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
Bar Paly -
Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing