Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• Advertising is the life of trade.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Trade
  • Advertising

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Never
  • Sense

• Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • Man
  • Genius

• I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Think
  • Republican
  • President Obama

• I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Day
  • Try
  • Half

• I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Reading

• Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Help
  • Girl
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