Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Important
  • House
  • Reading

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Character
  • Sex

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Important

• I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Believe

• I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Up
  • Strong

• My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Memories

• Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

  

  Jean Racine
  • Faith
  • Action

• There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Smart

• You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

  

  Marti Noxon

• Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Feelings
  • Moon
  • Interest

• I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Family
  • Movies
  • Theater

• Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Knowledge
  • Cowardice

• Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Why
  • She
  • True

• Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Knowledge
  • Realizing
  • Fronts