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 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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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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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've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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The way that we cheered whenever our team was scoring a touchdown,The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down.
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
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The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.
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'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.
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I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
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Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
