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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Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been open to interested girls. Archaeology suggests that eagle huntresses were probably more common in ancient times.
Adrienne Mayor -
Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
Akshay Kumar -
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.
Judith Butler -
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells -
I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
Antoine Griezmann -
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing