Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Model
  • Singer

• I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Trying
  • Find

• They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dead

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• You ask yourself 'What is love? Am I in love?', when what you should be asking is, 'What is not love?', ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Done

• William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • True
  • Wish

• I am not a comic, I have never told a joke...The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him...My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can....They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads.'

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Funny

• The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• You could be the most beautiful girl, but if you're stuck up, that doesn't do it for me.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Truth
  • Powerful

• Nothing gets me more nervous than white people who talk black.......I mean, it's fun on 'Ricki Lake', but in real life......

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Life
  • Rejection
  • I Feel

• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problems
  • Primary care
  • Chronic cases

• Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Rule