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I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights.
Marilyn Monroe
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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
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Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
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I'm going to be a great movie star some day.
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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
Marilyn Monroe
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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.
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But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
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I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
Marilyn Monroe
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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I believe in everything - a little bit.
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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
Marilyn Monroe
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There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Marilyn Monroe
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But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Marilyn Monroe
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe
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I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
Marilyn Monroe
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A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
Marilyn Monroe
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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
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