Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
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Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.
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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
