"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."

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Source : "Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy", www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2012.

Helen Gurley Brown

#Success Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“As an actor, it's all about whether you can sell the emotion on your face... that desperation, the panic and rage that comes with combat. The emotion of combat is important to me. I mean, you feel almost sick if you see a real fight where someone is getting badly beaten up. You can get emotionally involved in combat that has nothing to do with you in real-life, let alone if you are actually in it... or it's someone you know, and so you should have those same feelings on film.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.”
“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”
“Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.”
“Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.”

Source : Rupert Murdoch‏ @rupertmurdoch, twitter.com. November 24, 2014.
“Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.”
“The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.”
“People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt or/and on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?”

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