Diane Ackerman Quotes
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.Diane Ackerman
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
Wanda Sykes -
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
Naomi Judd -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
Veerappa Moily -
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
Fat Joe -
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
Idina Menzel
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
Dan Jenkins -
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler -
I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
S. Truett Cathy -
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Malala Yousafzai -
He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
Orison Swett Marden
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
Edgar Wright -
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid -
I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
Carly Pope -
I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
Beck -
Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
Amory Lovins
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I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
Jim McDermott -
I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason to bullying... it's not even the bully's fault, which is why it's such a difficult thing to combat.
Dove Cameron -
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson -
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
Malcolm Wallop -
Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb -
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
Diane Ackerman