Diane Ackerman Quotes
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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I've never been a partier.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
