Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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'Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?' 'I do not doubt it. France is a great power.'
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I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.
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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
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Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.
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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!
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The earth shall be left to no one.
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A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
