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Doris Lessing Quotes

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

Work People World Know Run Anything

I did some things, including the Body Issue. I'm not going to say I regret doing that, but I think now if you asked me to do it, I would probably say no.

Matt Harvey

Me Regret Think Doing You Body

I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

Steve Kanaly

Knowledge You Phone Phone Call Go

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg

Mother School I Am Me Church Acting

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

Me Find Go Poet Been Before

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

Rob Zombie

School Fun High School Dawn Remember

I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the workforce, when they basically no longer meet anyone. Life becomes dull. So as a result people get married to have a personal life. I could elaborate but I think everyone understands.

Michel Houellebecq

Life Moment People Think Result

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Mohammed Omar

Battle Reach House Injustice White

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Moby

I Am Sex Now More Would Than

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell

Love Marriage Spiritual Identity End

It so happens that after a certain stage, we have to give in to the wishes of the people rather than your own satisfaction. I look at it as my responsibility to satisfy the wishes of the people more than mine.

Chiranjeevi

Responsibility People Look Wishes

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.

Claudia Schiffer

Good Stone Look Act Been Course

When was the last time you bought an American-made radio or television? If you're Gen X or younger, the answer is 'never.' Does the label on that shirt or skirt you're wearing say 'Made in the U.S.A.'? If so, you probably got it at Goodwill, or maybe at a Smithsonian garage sale.

Seth Shostak

Time You Television Say Never Radio