Diane Ackerman Quotes
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
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Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
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I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
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I apologize for nothing.
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
