Doris Lessing Quotes
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen -
I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
Fedor Emelianenko -
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose -
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
Daisy Ashford -
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
Ilan Stavans -
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Lara St. John -
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Rand Paul -
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines de La Fressange -
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett -
I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
Lance Gross
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Gavin DeGraw -
What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
Raf Simons -
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor -
I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
Uzo Aduba -
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
Vicky McClure
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I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
Marie Lu -
There is something like destiny. I don't really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.
Karan Patel -
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
Joel Coen -
No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.
John McCain -
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing