Diane Ackerman Quotes
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
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I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.
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I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
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Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they're open and that they're inclusive - and I believe that they are.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
