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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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
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Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it's needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn't have to be all guitars and keyboards all the time.
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This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
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When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
