Doris Lessing Quotes
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
Doris Lessing
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
M. Scott Peck
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
Victor Mitchell
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
Zaha Hadid
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
Sam Shepard
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
Caitriona Balfe
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
Zara Larsson
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis
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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.
Jack Ma
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
J. J. Watt