Cynthia Heimel Quotes
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.
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You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.
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Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
