Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the table. Everything is on the table for me.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
