Doris Lessing Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
J. C. Chandor
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The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Lady Gaga
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
Ted Danson
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
Damian Lewis
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
Haley Bennett
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Forbes
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
J. Maarten Troost
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
Banks
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
Dani Shapiro
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
Lauren Graham
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The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
Jim DeMint
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
Bat for Lashes
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Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.
Arancha Gonzalez
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
Doris Lessing