Diane Ackerman Quotes
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.
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I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.
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All women are ambitious naturally.
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I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.
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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
