Diane Ackerman Quotes
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler -
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
Sally Mann -
Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
Jack McBrayer -
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
Patrick M. Byrne
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite -
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Salman Rushdie -
We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
Ingrid Thulin -
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
Tamae Watanabe -
I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
Dana Stabenow
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. Abrams -
The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
Sachin Tendulkar -
My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
Zach Galifianakis -
I do not want to belittle or be indifferent to the insults to our prophet (pbuh). I denounce insulting our prophet and announce that my heart is filled with his love. Yet, I refuse that his position should be employed for ignoble political gains. However, I protest being used as a tool.
Tawakkol Karman -
We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
Margaret Fuller -
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
Elvis Stojko
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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
James Patterson -
I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.
America Ferrera -
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.
Jim Lehrer -
I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
John Lithgow -
I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.
Misha Glenny -
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman