Doris Lessing Quotes
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
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We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
