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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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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At one level, happiness is an equation that has "needs met" as the numerator and "presumed total needs" as the denominator. One way to achieve temporary happiness is to invest more energy seeking to fill up the numerator. But another way, a more stable way, is to reflectively guard against the growth of one's denominator of needs, and to cultivate the habit of gratitude at the satisfaction of real and basic needs.
