Marilyn Monroe Quotes

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Marilyn Monroe

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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.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Small
  • Funny
  • Fight

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• 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.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Girl

• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Smoking
  • Quitting
  • Too Late

• 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.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • God
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Question
  • Busy

• The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness...

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Consciousness

• I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.

  

  Stromae
  • Dance
  • Problems
  • Hide

• I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Elimination

• I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

  

  Len Wein
  • Trying
  • Past
  • I Think

• Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

  

  Moliere
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Life is

• The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • I Think
  • Life is
  • I Realize