Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so I think that that it turns the volume up a little bit on storytelling. The same way when I was doing commercials and then I went and shot 'Go,' and 'Go' has a level of pace that is unlike any of my other movies.
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'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.
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I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.
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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
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When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.
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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.
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Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
