Marilyn Monroe Quotes
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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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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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
