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.Carolyn Heilbrun
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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.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Karen Morley -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra -
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.
Imelda May -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
Cameron Winklevoss -
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.
Dalton Trumbo -
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher -
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
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.
Walt Mossberg -
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
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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.
Gary Locke -
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.
Damien Hirst -
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Randy Harrison -
Between going and staying the day wavers,
Octavio Paz
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson -
If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.
Isabel dos Santos -
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
Walter Koenig -
Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
Mary Oliver -
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun