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Diane Ackerman Quotes

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Love Is Everyone Wonderful Just

I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

Love Discipline Believe Way Proof

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

People Me Look Know Say Try

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Steven Spielberg

Family Myself Worth Passionate Away

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

School Rugby Where Ballet Played

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Clifford Geertz

Always Anthropology Been Even Female

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

Woodstock British Twist Beatles

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

Father Me Remember Glow Radio Geek

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Money Economics Win Giving You Make

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Sometimes Way Give Must Practical

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Shaquille O'Neal

Sports Money Tired Game Play Want

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

Me Always Scared Things Painful Saw

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

Truth Lie Facts Just Because Become

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