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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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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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 don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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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.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
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I have a personality. The fans like a guy with personality.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
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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.
