Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
Naveen Jain
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
Iman
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
Imre Kertesz
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
Origen
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
Patrick Kane
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Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
Orla Brady
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe
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If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
Little Richard
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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
Janet Jackson
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During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.
Alex Grey
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For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.
Scarlett Thomas
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I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
Eve Ensler
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Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.
Thomas Carlyle
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(Even) if this record bombs, it's just another obstacle we have to get over.
Fabrizio Moretti
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
