Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
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It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.