Marilyn Monroe Quotes

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

Marilyn Monroe

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• Piano
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• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Battle
  • Goddess

• I've learned never say never.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Never
  • Say
  • Learned

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Work
  • Past
  • Stop

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Love
  • Justice

• I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Good
  • Body
  • Information

• Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • End
  • Distance
  • Encouragement

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Early
  • Others
  • Accuracy

• When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Play
  • Never

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

  

  Jerry West
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

  

  Christine Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Golf
  • Tennis
  • Piano