Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
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Drink down all unkindness.
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I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
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There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.
