Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
