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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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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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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My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
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I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
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Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
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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.
