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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. ↗

— Golda Meir

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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#first #horrors #lessen #second #seem

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#everything #like #solve #think

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

#develop #efficient #few #men #power

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#deadly #extinguished #friendship #fruit #hatred

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film. ↗

— Richard Lester

#again #album #anyone #before #cost

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day. ↗

— Richard Lester

#about #assistant #because #day #director

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton. ↗

— David Letterman

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