Diane Ackerman Quotes
Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.
Diane Ackerman
Quotes to Explore
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Adam Grant
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It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
Ike Barinholtz
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
Patrick Wang
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
Ted Olson
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With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.
John Strachan
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Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I find myself missing her lately. I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish. And to keep it together: It's so crazy out on the road. I gotta give her credit for not just going berserk and letting everybody get to her. I just passed on my number to her through somebody. It's good to have friends in the business who know what you're going through.
Christina Aguilera
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The slippages were actually more dramatic than the costs. As we slipped, the costs were pushed to the right.
B. R. Hayden
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Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
Sandra Bullock