Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
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Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
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Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
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It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?
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We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
