Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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As long as I am chairman, regulating global warming pollution is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.
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Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.