Marie Helvin Quotes

Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Mature
  • Immature

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Never
  • Working
  • Year

• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Used

• If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Ocean

• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Couple

• In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Past
  • Small

• For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Loving

• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Moments

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Good
  • Freedom

• You got these $10,000-a-plate dinners and Golden Circles Clubs. I think when the average voter looks at that, they rightly feel they're locked out of the process. They can't attend a $10,000 breakfast and they know that those who can are going to get the kind of access they can't imagine.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Breakfast

• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

  

  Karen Horney
  • May
  • Deception

• The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Reality

• Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Blessed
  • Grateful
  • Rewarding

• I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Inspiration
  • Record
  • Postcards

• Unfortunately, because of the way the stories have played over the last few days, I have decided that I am becoming a distraction, and therefore I have asked President Bush to withdraw my name for secretary of labor.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Stories
  • Distraction
  • President Bush

• Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!

  

  Marie Helvin