Diane Ackerman Quotes
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Can't sleep unless the TV is on.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.
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For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
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A man who limits his interests limits his life.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
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The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.
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If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
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The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
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You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.
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If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
