Doris Lessing Quotes
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.Doris Lessing
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
Edie Falco -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
Candice Swanepoel
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
Raekwon -
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
Gavin Newsom -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power -
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. Skinner -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
Orlando Bloom
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
Lady Gaga -
I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady Gaga -
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden -
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
Gary Barlow Take That -
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Jack Buck
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I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
Maud Welzen -
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
Drew Houston -
I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
Jon Batiste -
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Antonio Porchia -
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
Doris Lessing