Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  

  Usher
  • Children
  • Beauty
  • Relax

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Mom

• That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Real
  • Character
  • Earth

• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Hope
  • Solitude
  • Bitter

• Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Travel

• I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Hand
  • Lyric

• Religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people...

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Control

• Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Help

• The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Attitude

• The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Long
  • Truth

• I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • People
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • People
  • Moon

• The only thing I can do is move forward and try to put myself in the best position to help this team win, and whatever decisions they make, I will just have to deal with it.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Help
  • Team

• In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • American
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

  

  Fred DeLuca

• Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Value
  • Study

• The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Musician

• There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Started out
  • Sex Maggots
  • Goo Goo Dolls

• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Challenges
  • Greater

• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown