Doris Lessing Quotes

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Doris Lessing

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• It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

  

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• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
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• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
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• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
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• For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Alike and Equal are not the same.

  

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• The number of saints in scores, Valiant men, golden their party. Before kings a career of praise, Warriors, no one was before them in demanding. In straits, in expanse, in every need, May they be a city to our body and our soul!

  

  Taliesin
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• The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.

  

  Ben Carson
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• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  

  Linus Torvalds
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• Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

  

  Elaine Stritch
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• Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Work

• What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Alone
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• The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Alone
  • Atmosphere
  • Product

• As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

  

  Doris Lessing