Diane Ackerman Quotes
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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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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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.
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Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.
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When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
