Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Good design is good business.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
