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.
Zaha Hadid -
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
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.
Natalie Gulbis -
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.
D. B. Sweeney -
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
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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.
Nancy Pearcey -
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Vaclav Havel -
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
Adam Jones -
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Karen Duffy -
I respect women to the utmost.
Magic Johnson
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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
Patrick Swayze -
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
Ingrid Newkirk -
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.
Warren Farrell -
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?
Christian Scott -
I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.
Ander Crenshaw -
I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.
Ashraf Barhom
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
Bill Sienkiewicz -
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
James Buchan -
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
Mandy Moore -
There are too many things to count that I like about London.
Andrew Wyatt -
Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
Diane Ackerman