Diane Ackerman Quotes
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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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.
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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.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I'm not a violent person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress?
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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But again, I remain optimistic that the impact on energy from these two events will be limited.
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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
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Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
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For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones.
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I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right
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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.
