Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.
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I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.
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When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
