Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.
Karyn Parsons
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
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Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Peter Brook
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In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers of the heavens, astrologers who divide the heavens into houses for the convenience of their prognostications. The same persons are then described as Chozim bakkokhabhim, star-gazers, those who study the stars for the purpose of taking horoscopes.
G. H. Pember
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How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?
Albert Einstein
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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Imelda Staunton
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
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A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.
Thomas Dewar
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From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Carolyn Heilbrun
