Diane Ackerman Quotes
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
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God blessed us with talent.
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No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.
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Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.
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People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.
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Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
