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

• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Yoga
  • Self

• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • History
  • Laws
  • Mathematics

• Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Names
  • Attachment

• I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Violence
  • I Think
  • Shoot

• I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Knows
  • I Think
  • Accepts

• 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