Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Baby

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Bisexual

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Injustice

• I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Kind
  • Seeing
  • Egypt

• Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Love
  • Free
  • Filmmaking

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Music
  • Women
  • Performers

• The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  

  Livy
  • Sea
  • Wind

• But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake

• You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Success
  • Intelligence