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.
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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.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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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.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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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.
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Television is such an evolving medium.
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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.
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I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
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It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
