Diane Ackerman Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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In his book Vision America, Aubrey Malphurs asserted that much of the perceived church growth in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s was actually due primarily to the redistribution of believers, not genuine church growth. He stated, “The problems of the church in the 1980s carry over into the 1990s. The church as a whole continues to experience decline and the unchurched increase."
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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Choice is a signature of our species.
