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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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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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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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.
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There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.
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I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
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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.
