Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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Another thing which is about as sure as death and taxes, is that no man can go on bluffing indefinitely without being called.
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There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
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Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
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He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
