Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals.
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
