Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• 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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Regret
  • Wonderful
  • Minute

• 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.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Want
  • Questions

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Ego
  • Check
  • Prideful

• 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。

  

  Mao Zedong

• … 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?

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Song
  • Freedom

• Joy is like restless day; but peace divineLike quiet night;Lead me, O Lord, - till perfect Day shall shineThrough Peace to Light.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Night
  • Light
  • Peace

• So much time and so little to say..

  

  Ben Folds
  • Time

• At this time, space was supposed to be filled with an ether, a substance which might well serve, among other functions, to transmit forces across space. So long as such an ether could be called on, the transmission of force to a distance was easy to understand; it was like ringing a distant bell by pulling a bell-rope.

  

  James Jeans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• Just have fun and take every bit of experience that you can.

  

  Perrie Edwards Little Mix
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Take

• 'I Used To Love H.E.R.,' from a production standpoint, was a brainchild of the style I developed on 'Soul By The Pound.'

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Developed

• It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • World
  • Happy
  • Hard