Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.
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I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
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I loved my country, and I hated him.
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That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.
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I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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There are a lot of jobs in the financial industry that do need a math major.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
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For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
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If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
