Diane Ackerman Quotes
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,Close well above us, that we may rest forever,Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
