Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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I'm totally myself.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
