Diane Ackerman Quotes
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.
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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
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If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
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A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.
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I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
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Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.
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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
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It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.
