Diane Ackerman Quotes
In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
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The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.
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I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.
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I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
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By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.
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I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
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There's no doubt I'm emotional.
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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
