Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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So much time and so little to say..
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
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The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.
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I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
