Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
-
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
-
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
-
I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
-
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
-
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
-
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
-
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
-
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
-
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
-
The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
-
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
-
Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.
-
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
-
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
-
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
-
I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
-
I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.
-
Gallstones are also common among obese patients who lose weight rapidly after gastric bypass surgery. (In gastric bypass surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced, preventing the person from overeating.) One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery.
-
No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
-
I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
-
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
