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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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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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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Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.
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Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.
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I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
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I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
