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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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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Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.
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I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.
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Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends.
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Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.
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About this book In this book I will first define and explain what I mean by Humble Inquiry in Chapter 1. To fully understand humility, it is helpful to differentiate three kinds of humility: 1) the humility that we feel around elders and dignitaries; 2) the humility that we feel in the presence of those who awe us with their achievements; and 3) Here-and-now Humility, which results from our being dependent from time to time on someone else in order to accomplish a task that we are committed to. This will strike some readers as academic hairsplitting, but it is the recognition of this third type of humility that is the key to Humble Inquiry and to the building of positive relationships.
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
