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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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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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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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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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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It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I love pain. Love pain.
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
