Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I don't digest things with my mind.

Marilyn Monroe

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Family

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Soul

• Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

  

  Jerry Springer

• There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Women

• Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Judge
  • Calm

• Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • History
  • Revolution

• Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Team

• I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Job

• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Corruption
  • Hypocrisy

• They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Best
  • Poor
  • Intention

• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Music
  • Song
  • Night

• I don't digest things with my mind.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • My Mind
  • Digest