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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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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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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O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
