Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

Helen Gurley Brown

• Interesting
• Enough
• Helping
• Able
• Pleasant

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
  • Physical

• Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Chance
  • Prison

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Agreement
  • Unite

• Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Shoes

• When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Military

• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Work

• When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• There are so many voices on YouTube, and there are incredible creators that are popular for a reason. And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them. It's really important to put your best foot forward and be your best self because you will always be the number one version of you.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Great
  • Important
  • Inspired

• Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'

  

  Sia LSD
  • Lyrics

• Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

  

  Janet Flanner
  • Time

• We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Time
  • Great
  • Together

• I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up
  • Shoes

• This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Event

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

  

  Adolph Green
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Sexy
  • Achieve

• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Author

• Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Interesting
  • Enough
  • Helping