"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading,……" — Helen Gurley Brown
"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can."
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Helen Gurley Brown
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29 Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown has 29 quotes on this site.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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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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One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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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 care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination…
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I…
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If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
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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…
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Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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