Diane Ackerman Quotes
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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I have matured a lot.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
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I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice. I don't know if I'm coming or going.
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I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
