Diane Ackerman Quotes
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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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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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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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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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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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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I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
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On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
