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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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
Abraham Lincoln
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
Nazanin Boniadi
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People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
Arjun Kapoor
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The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
Aristotle
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
Fleur East
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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
