Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
Oliver North
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I could never take orders from anyone.
Gautam Adani
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
Rachel Sklar
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
Rafael dos Anjos
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What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?
Pat Buchanan
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
Upton Sinclair
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I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
Vanessa Carlton
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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
Garry Kasparov
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira
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Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
Abbie Cornish
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I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
Zooey Deschanel
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I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
Holly Hunter
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With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
Alain Ducasse
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If we are to survive, we must not accept the official indoctrination of the purpose of nuclear 'power' stations, radiation health risks, the 'need' for further nuclear weapons and the reality of nuclear war.
Martin Ryle
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I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.
W. Kamau Bell
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Carolyn Heilbrun
