Diane Ackerman Quotes
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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 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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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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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
