Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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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.'
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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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.
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'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.
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I don't know why I write what I write.
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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.
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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
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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
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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.
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Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!
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Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
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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.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.
