Diane Ackerman Quotes

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

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President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Jo Bonner

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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

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I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Andy Serkis

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After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

Amy Yasbeck

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I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Meryl Streep

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Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

Srikumar Rao

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I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

Simon McBurney

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Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Drew Brees

BelieveThoughtYouAccomplishNever

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

David Sedaris

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It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

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My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

Bresha Webb

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Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

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