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Doris Lessing Quotes

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Buildings Find Out Affect Us Would

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.

Fight Long Place Yesterday Force

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Good Live Think Without Tension Got

You can't be nervous when you know your steps.

You Know Nervous Steps Your

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

Live Long Feelings Know Passionate

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

Heart Tired People Me Sick Look

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Alone Strong Feel You Look Hand

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

Wise Limit Expansion Us Only Market

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

Claude Vorilhon

God Age Science Death Free Labor

I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators.

Trust Government Independent Fair

Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

Priyanka Chopra

People You Discovery Hammer Demand

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Sylvester Stallone

Business I Am Me Talking You Want

Some of my colleagues are unwilling to vote for any Dodd-Frank reforms, partly out of the political fear that any reforms will be seen as reducing regulations on the financial sector.

Fear Colleagues Financial Political

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