Diane Ackerman Quotes
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I want to have a long career.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to westCheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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Law is mind without reason.
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In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.
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Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
