Diane Ackerman Quotes
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Warren Farrell
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
Rachel Gibson
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
Yoko Ono
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm not a violent person.
Manute Bol
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
Rain Phoenix
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
Ian Gomez
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
Cate Blanchett
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Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
William Gilmore Simms
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My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.
Colman Domingo
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For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
N. T. Wright
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman
