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Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
Helen Reddy
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I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
Helen Reddy
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Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.
Helen Reddy
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I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.
Helen Reddy
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If I have to, I can do anything.
Helen Reddy
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My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
Helen Reddy
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I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.
Helen Reddy
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I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy
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A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
Helen Reddy
10.
I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.
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I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
Helen Reddy
12.
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
Helen Reddy
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I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.
Helen Reddy
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I am woman, hear me roar.
Helen Reddy
15.
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
Helen Reddy
16.
You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.
Helen Reddy
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In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.
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Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
Helen Reddy
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I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
Helen Reddy
20.
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Helen Reddy
21.
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Helen Reddy
22.
I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
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Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!
Helen Reddy
24.
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
Helen Reddy
25.
I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.
Helen Reddy
26.
You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.
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27.
[On God:] She makes everything possible.
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28.
If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.
Helen Reddy
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There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.
Helen Reddy
30.
My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
Helen Reddy
31.
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.
Helen Reddy
32.
I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.
Helen Reddy
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I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
Helen Reddy
34.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
Helen Reddy
35.
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
Helen Reddy
36.
Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.
Helen Reddy
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Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Helen Reddy
38.
It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.
Helen Reddy
39.
Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
Helen Reddy
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I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.
Helen Reddy
41.
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.
Helen Reddy
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It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
Helen Reddy
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I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.
Helen Reddy
44.
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
Helen Reddy
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I like music to soothe me.
Helen Reddy
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There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.
Helen Reddy
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Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Helen Reddy
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To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
Helen Reddy
