Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
Lady Gaga -
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Wendy Davis -
I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Karl Kraus -
I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
Ted Shackelford -
I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
Hank Ballard -
Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
Camille Pissarro -
Another thing which is about as sure as death and taxes, is that no man can go on bluffing indefinitely without being called.
E. W. Howe -
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?’
Barbara Boxer
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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.
Carl von Clausewitz -
To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
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.
Ben Harper -
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
Clayton Christensen -
I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
Matt Cameron Soundgarden -
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
Kim Novak -
Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.
Darcey Bussell -
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
K. Eric Drexler -
Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
Diane Ackerman