Diane Ackerman Quotes

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Jim Cantalupo

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It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

Joey McIntyre

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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Andre Maurois

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In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

John Olver

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Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.

Michael Hayden

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I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

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When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

Shura

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Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

Roger Ailes

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Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

Michael K. Williams

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When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Jay-Z

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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