Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.
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The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.
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Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.
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The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
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There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
