Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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I want a girlfriend who can eat like me.
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BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
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In one particularly dramatic case, an officer instinctively grabbed the gun out of the hands of an assailant and then instinctively handed it right back—just as he had done time and time again with his trainers in practice.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.
