Diane Ackerman Quotes
I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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P. 27.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
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A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
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I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.
