Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!
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I have learnt to be a congratulator and not a hater!
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
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Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.
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MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
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Do good work and share it with people.
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Obedience is less painful than regret.
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I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
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My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
