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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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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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
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Between going and staying the day wavers,
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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
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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.
