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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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Helen Gurley Brown
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 18
Died: 2012
Died: August 13
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Businessperson
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Journalist
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Green Forest
Arkansas
Helen Marie Gurley
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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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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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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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some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
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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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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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Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
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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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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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