Diane Ackerman Quotes
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,Close well above us, that we may rest forever,Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.
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When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.
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I don't think I look great. I only see flaws in myself on the small screen. I make an extra effort to look good.
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... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
