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.Carolyn Heilbrun
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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.
Taylor Mali -
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.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter -
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
Ira Sachs -
All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
Taio Cruz -
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.
E. L. Doctorow
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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?'
Gabriel Mann -
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.
Oliver Cromwell -
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke -
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.
Jack Dunphy -
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl -
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
Warren Spahn
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
Malaika Arora Khan -
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.
Isaac Asimov -
I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
Laura Fraser -
I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
Washed Out -
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
Maisie Williams -
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
Jack Bowman
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It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Anish Kapoor -
I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
DeRay Mckesson -
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
Adrian Rogers -
All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
Jacob Batalon -
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
Carolyn Heilbrun