Diane Ackerman Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
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I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
