Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
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A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
