Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.
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New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
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I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
