Doris Lessing Quotes
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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I have always been a fan of Kajol Ma'am. The way she portrayed Zooni's character in 'Fanaa' is etched in my memory. I have watched the film several times, and each time I have learnt something new from her performance.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
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The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'
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The human race has been telling stories since it began.
