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?
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
Pamela Anderson -
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
A. E. van Vogt -
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose -
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Taylor Swift
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
Ted Cruz -
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams -
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.
Farrah Fawcett -
We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
Hale Irwin -
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.
Harold Hamm
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
Victor Mitchell -
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.
Yami Gautam -
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.
Bear Grylls -
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.
Kara Walker -
Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
Randy Quaid -
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
Kate Winslet -
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.
Vaclav Havel -
The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
Brenda Blethyn -
The human race has been telling stories since it began.
Doris Lessing