Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Some

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Live
  • Innovation
  • Ancestors

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Fly

• I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Reflection

• I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Gold

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Beautiful
  • Opinion

• 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow,And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low:So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,No more through rolling clouds to soar again,View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Blow

• People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • People

• So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

  

  Bono U2
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Law

• In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • America
  • Player
  • Habit

• In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American
  • Decision
  • Unique

• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  

  John Ruskin
  • World
  • Understanding

• It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • People
  • Beer
  • Cheesy

• Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Turns
  • Nothingness

• My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!!

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • Dumb

• I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Dumb
  • I Knew