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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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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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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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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For casual wear, I'm obsessed with Onassis in Soho. Hip-preppy and well priced.
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I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.
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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.
