Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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The only power you have is the word no.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring cliché." I mean, that's one of my pursuits, is trying to not become a cliché, or get stuck in that. But even that's a cliché in itself! It's difficult! But I think it's worth it.... It's a real vicious circle there.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.
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It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.
