Doris Lessing Quotes
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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People always want to doubt you.
Zendaya -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
Adam Mansbach -
If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
J. R. Moehringer -
You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
Carlos Ghosn
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Magnus Scheving -
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton -
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
Zach Gilford -
I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
James Rosenquist -
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
Billy Joel -
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley -
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
Doris Lessing