Doris Lessing Quotes
None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
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I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.
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'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
