"Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived."

-- Sam Giancana

“Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.”
“Many states favor joint custody.”
“I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.”
“You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.”
“Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.”
“I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.”
“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”

Source : "Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy", www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2012.
“A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.”

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