Diane Ackerman Quotes
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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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.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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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.
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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.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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I fall apart. It's hard. The hardest part is hearing it on the news and then we have to wait.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I'm very familiar with Tyler Perry.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
