Diane Ackerman Quotes
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
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I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
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You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.
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The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
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Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
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There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
