Diane Ackerman Quotes
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
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Horses have made civilization possible.
