"Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up."

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Source : Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.22, Open Road Media

Helen Gurley Brown

#Raw Materials Quotes #Materials Quotes

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
“There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.”
“My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.”
“There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.”
“God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.”
“The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.”
“Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.”

Source : S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”
“When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.”

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