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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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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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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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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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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The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
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If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
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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.
