Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Helen Gurley Brown

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Die
  • Down

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Pet
  • Disrespect

• My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

  

  Eric Cantona

• Washington knows how to spend money.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Money

• I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Work
  • Kids

• People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Work

• A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Believe
  • Plant

• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.

  

  Dean Martin
  • Kids
  • House
  • Words

• My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

  

  Deana Carter
  • Father

• An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Experience
  • Identity

• I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

  

  Peter Shilton
  • Music

• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  

  John Woolman
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Discipline

• When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Life
  • Small
  • Desert

• We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Values