Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Same
  • Distance

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
  • Worry
  • Interest
  • Diamond

• Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Sounds

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Want
  • Play
  • Instrument

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Night
  • Know
  • Sunglasses

• The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Texas
  • Three
  • Brand

• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Real

• On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Attitude
  • President

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I missed you all my life,” Kylie said. “I didn’t know I missed you, but I know it now. You were supposed to be there.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life

• In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Military

• I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Terrified