Doris Lessing Quotes
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.Doris Lessing
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
Carine Roitfeld -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Jack Nicklaus -
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Xavier Becerra -
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
M. Night Shyamalan -
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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I don't do negative things.
Rajeev Shukla -
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King -
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Tamara Tunie -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
Vera Wang -
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
Pat Brown -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian -
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
Charles Bass
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I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
Drew Barrymore -
I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.
Jason Statham -
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
John Francis Daley -
[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
Yasser Arafat -
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing