Diane Ackerman Quotes
An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
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We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it; we cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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God, I'm glad I'm not me.
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It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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I think the fans from the original 'Teen Wolf' tuned in expecting us to ruin the franchise, and I think that we've only heightened it. So we've brought 'Teen Wolf' back.
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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what Donald Trump does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.
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Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.
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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
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I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.
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An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
