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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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat
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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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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
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Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.
Brian Lindstrom
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
