Doris Lessing Quotes
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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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.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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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.
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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.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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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.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
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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.
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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.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced' - that is to say, intentional.
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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.
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If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
