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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I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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She moved slowly, and her coat, too tight, made her belly stick out more prominently. With the two dollars deep in her purse she wandered off, more uncertain than ever, for now she saw the shining pans and pots and the cloth, so soft to the touch. Her desires grew vast and many, and she left, poorer certainly than when she had come in the store.
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I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
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When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.
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The human race has been telling stories since it began.
