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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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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Certainly we were disappointed. But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us.
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You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.
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The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.
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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
