Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
