Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Alcohol

• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Loved
  • Radio
  • Eat

• I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Beautiful
  • Died
  • Her

• The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Real
  • Song
  • Singing

• I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Comfortable
  • Suits
  • Trends

• I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Trying

• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Want
  • Write
  • Rather

• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Good
  • Country
  • Loyalty

• The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Sea
  • Italian

• And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

  

  Alfre Woodard
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

  

  John Galliano
  • Believe
  • Discipline

• It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Family
  • Happy

• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • I Think
  • Hurts
  • Sick Man

• We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Free
  • Christ

• When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Never
  • Spend
  • Chasing

• Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Trouble
  • Kindness
  • Bigger