Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
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Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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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?
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A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
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The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
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People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
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My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.
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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
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People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!