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People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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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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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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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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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
Helen Gurley Brown
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There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
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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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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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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 guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
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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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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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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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Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
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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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You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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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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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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