Diane Ackerman Quotes
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should!
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I'm obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!
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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
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Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.
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if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.
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At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
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I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
