Doris Lessing Quotes
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
Imran Amed -
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
Saint Ambrose -
Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
Sam Kean -
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut -
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
Jack Nicklaus
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
Mamie Gummer -
There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
Garrett Hedlund -
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
Gary Wright -
I have no regrets.
Ralph Fiennes -
I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
Larry Hagman -
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund -
It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.
Sam Cooke -
'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
Ian Paisley
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Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.
Jared Cohen -
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Mario Cuomo -
Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
Aamir Khan -
I like my own company.
Anne Reid -
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing