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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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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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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The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
