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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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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In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.
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My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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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.
