Diane Ackerman Quotes
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.
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Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.
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We count it crucial to make regular soundings to find out how the public perceives the rating program, and to measure the approval and disapproval of what we are doing... The rating system isn't perfect but, in an imperfect world, it seems each year to match the expectations of those whom it is designed to serve - parents of America.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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Ideas kill people.
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There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
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I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
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I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
