Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
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I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.
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Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,An old man in a draughty houseUnder a windy knob.
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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
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I was a tax attorney for something like seven years, so I was a tax geek. I was really into it. Tax is one of those things that people think is incredibly boring, but like any science about systems, once you get into it it, becomes incredibly intricate and interesting.
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
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The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.
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I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
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No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.
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I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.
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Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people.
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I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.
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Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
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I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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Nice job…what the hell is U2 supposed to play?
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
