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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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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'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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Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do anything else.
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
