Diane Ackerman Quotes
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.Diane Ackerman
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Ian Hacking -
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
Kate Moss -
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter -
My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
Natasha Lyonne -
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Wavy Gravy
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
Patrick Whitesell -
A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius -
I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
Kathryn Harrison -
You can't go east and west at the same time.
Jean Charest -
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
James Broughton
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I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
Ben Katchor -
'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.
Billy Eichner -
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop -
I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.
Alan Taylor -
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
Daniel Goleman
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
Octavia Spencer -
Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.
Natalie Portman -
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
Zooey Deschanel -
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
Slick Rick -
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Diane Ackerman