Marilyn Monroe Quotes

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.

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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.
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I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.