Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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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.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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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.
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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.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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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.
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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.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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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.
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I don't need to impress children.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
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The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
