Marilyn Monroe Quotes

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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You’re supposed to get more conservative in your tastes as you get older, but I tend to go the other way. I listen to stuff that’s two steps away from white noise. But I must admit that I’ve been so busy with Napalm and personal things in recent years that I’ve not dug down into what’s going on. I’m a little disconnected at the minute but it’s not through choice, it’s through circumstance. Generally speaking, anything that’s nasty, horrible and confrontational is my bag.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.