Diane Ackerman Quotes
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
Diane Ackerman
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
Adam Grant
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
Adam Grant
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
Maddie Ziegler
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
Damien Fahey
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
Edgar Wright
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
Omari Hardwick
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Manuel Puig
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If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.
Palmer Luckey
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My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.
Wyatt Russell
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The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.
George Osborne
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Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
Edward Burne-Jones
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We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.
Peter Welch
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Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
Diane Ackerman
