Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
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We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
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Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.
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I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.
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I really love dogs. When I see a dog, I go crazy, it's like, “Oh my God, come here, come here!”
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But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.
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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
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Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
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My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
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I do whatever I can to make my guys pumped up
