Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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	Let's judge a man on what he's done.   
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	You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!   
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	In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.   
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	I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.   
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	Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.   
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	I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.   
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	There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.   
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	My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.   
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	No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.   
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	Reverence is fatal to literature.   
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	Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.   
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	As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.   
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	It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.   
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	It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'   
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	The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.   
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	I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.   
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	I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.   
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	I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.   
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	Failure is success if we learn from it.   
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	I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.   
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	I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.   
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	You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.   
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	It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.   
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	Remember now, Cheers, no tears.   
 
	
	 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					