Diane Ackerman Quotes
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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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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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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.
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Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.
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Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I'm just like, 'This is it.' I've also learned how to be patient and not really try to overproduce anymore. I used to add instruments, keep adding instruments, but nowadays - I know better now. I know how to let the track breathe.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
