Doris Lessing Quotes
Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Wale
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
Frances Beinecke
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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.
Oliver Sim
The xx
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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
J. J. Abrams
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I've got revolutionary blood in my blood.
Geisha Williams
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And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
Pablo Neruda
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There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success.
Preity Zinta
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing
