Diane Ackerman Quotes
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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I'm such a fan of the Obamas in general, and I love how dignified and charismatic and how intelligent they are. They are so warm and kind and encouraging, especially of young people, and I really love seeing that.
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I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I've reached the point where people text me randomly for favors, like, 'Hey can I pick your brain?' People I haven't talked to in years are asking for favors. It's like, 'Wow people really got some nerve.'
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A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
