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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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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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.
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One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.
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I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church.
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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.
