Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The world is always in movement.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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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.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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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.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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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.
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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.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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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.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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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.
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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.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.
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The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
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There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
