Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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My best friend is my husband.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
