Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Everything I do has an underlying political question.
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That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.
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I read poetry to save time.
