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.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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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.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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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.'
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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.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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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.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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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.
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I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
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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.
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For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.
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I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.
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'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.
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Now I know who you are Yeah, I see I should have known it from the start.
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What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
