Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
