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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
-
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
-
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?'
-
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.
-
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-
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.
-
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
-
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
-
I think glamour is synonymous with me.
-
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.
-
I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
-
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.
-
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
-
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.
-
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
-
I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
-
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
-
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.
-
It says that it's disorganized and what's probably even more damning is to hear the Clinton and Ferrer people bickering about who's fault it was.
-
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
-
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
