Diane Ackerman Quotes
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dreamBut of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.
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The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.
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I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
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Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, my writing hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.
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Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.
