Diane Ackerman Quotes
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
Hampton Sides
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman
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I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
Wang Jianlin
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
Abraham Pais
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
Jack Kevorkian
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
Randi Weingarten
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Natalie Merchant
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
Eddie Huang
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
Frank Woolley
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Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.
Keith Olbermann
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.
Chris Lane
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I always admire people who have passion.
Lesley Nicol
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
