Doris Lessing Quotes
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.Doris Lessing
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam -
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt -
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
Xi Jinping -
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim -
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung -
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
Karen Hughes
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
Danica Patrick -
I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
Maisie Williams -
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams -
Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
Mahesh Babu
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied -
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.
Angela Davis -
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
Michael Eric Dyson -
I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.
Alexander Stepanov -
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing