Diane Ackerman Quotes
For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
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I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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Bless our Mountain Greenery home!In a mountain greeneryWhere God paints the sceneryJust two crazy people together
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I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.
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For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?
