Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
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We see not our own backs.
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If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
