Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
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Nothing is Given, Everything is Earned.
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If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.
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The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
