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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Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
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The repetition, the process, hitting it whether you are inspired or not, deadlines: all those things are art school ideas. That training just slid into the music part of my life.
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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.
