Doris Lessing Quotes
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.Doris Lessing
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I am not honest.
Larry David -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
Adam Cohen -
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams -
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar -
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers -
With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
Valentina Zelyaeva -
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra -
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede -
I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
Larry Fitzgerald
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I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
Lisa Marie Presley -
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.
Sarah Brightman -
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
Emma Watson -
We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.
Cleve Jones -
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Doris Lessing