Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

Marilyn Monroe

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• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Great
  • God
  • Love

• I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Age
  • Small

• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • True

• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Wine

• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

  

  Saint Basil
  • Dog
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • People
  • Money

• 'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Book

• I don't know why I write what I write.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Why

• This not to say that the Reform Party appears to be the Canadian equivalent of the Republican Party or that I am trying to pass myself off as a modern-day Lincoln.

  

  Preston Manning
  • Trying
  • Party

• Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

  

  Jan Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Light

• Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Live
  • Business
  • Growth

• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Important
  • Force
  • Conclusion

• Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Knows
  • Dancing
  • Pants

• Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Wonder
  • Enough
  • Be kind

• I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Live

• I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Body
  • Granted
  • Treated

• I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Family

• We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Win
  • Competition

• I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Teenager
  • Granted

• The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Small
  • Support
  • Stronger

• I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Granted
  • Being Happy