Doris Lessing Quotes
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
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I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
