Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

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• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Most

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Nice
  • Church
  • Jesus

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Beginning
  • See
  • Benefits

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Growth
  • Same
  • New York

• I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don't advocate one term.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Style
  • Write
  • Memory

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

  

  Ajit Pai

• They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else. I refuse to be politically correct.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Political
  • Safety

• I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Baby
  • Learned
  • Lesson