Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
