Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good
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You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
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One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
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When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
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Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.
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I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.
