Diane Ackerman Quotes
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
