Marilyn Monroe Quotes

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

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• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Party
  • Doubt
  • New Years

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • World
  • Death
  • Transformation

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actress

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

  

  James Turrell
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Vision

• I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Dream

• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Dream
  • Chaos
  • Strange

• Basically, Ian went through the process of doing the Doors, and through singing somebody else's stuff and detaching himself from being at the center of the band, I think he just gained some perspective on the fact that the Cult wasn't such a terrible place to be.

  

  Billy Duffy The Cult
  • Band
  • The Doors
  • Detaching

• When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • True
  • Dream
  • Working