Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Marilyn Monroe

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Down

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Today
  • Fear
  • New

• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Never

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • People
  • Different
  • Stupid

• To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Fear
  • Better
  • Overcome

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Fear

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Still

• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Picture

• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Writing
  • Year

• If you wish to make a figure in marble, first make one of clay, and when you have finished it, let it dry and place it in a case which should be large enough, after the figure is taken out of it, to receive also the marble, from which you intend to reveal the figure in imitation of the one in clay.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Wish
  • Taken

• A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Control

• If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

  

  Hilary Swank
  • Growth
  • Uncomfortable
  • Dealing

• Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Fear
  • Stupid
  • Regrets