Marilyn Monroe Quotes
The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
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You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
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People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
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I think willpower is very valuable.
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The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
