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BRITTANY HOWARD As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND A lot of times, the preseason gets discredited by the fans and media. It helps so much to get that m...
DANE LOOKER Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel...
ADAM LEVINE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their m...
HOLLY BLACK What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
DAVID BROOKS I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystiqu...
PIXIE LOTT What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too h...
SARAH DESSEN The problem is how do molecules react. Because if you want to transform a molecule into something us...
WILLIAM LIPSCOMB I can see from their point of view that it makes sense. There was not much of a chance. We would be ...
LORI FRANTZ It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international ph...
MELANIE BROWN Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your busines...
NICK WOODMAN That was certainly a lot of fun. You'll take the first one any way you can get it.
BRIAN GUETZ Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work h...
DEEPIKA PADUKONE I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind...
NICK CAVE Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your...
JANET JACKSON Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn...
ANN BRASHARES If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some ap...
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PAWAN MISHRA It benefits you winning those games because your kids get a little more confidence. But other than t...
DAVE SHEFFIELD But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a...
JASON ALDEAN The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
DAN SIMMONS I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
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CATHERINE HICKS It's been that way ever since I've gotten to Denver. It goes with the territory now. It's almost lik...
ANDRE PATTERSON You are all I think about. You know that right? You haunt my mind, but in a good way. You are absolu...
MARY PITTMAN Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips you...
KATHLEEN GLASGOW But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you ...
JAMES CLEMENS I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Be...
ANNETTE BENING It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL You cant Realize Someone Good Is Coming Your Way, if still Remain Sleep on the Fact that they Actual...
DARREN L JACKSON Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It's primal, earthy, sexual e...
JENNA DEWAN Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more ch...
TIM MCGRAW Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more ch...
OSCAR WILDE Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. M...
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DONNIE EDWARDS 'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes plac...
DENNIS QUAID A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it's more the way in which you believe it and pr...
LIN YUTANG [Letter writing] helps you develop a way to think, ... It builds your intelligence, helps your abili...
WILL ANDERSON I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep...
LILLIAN CARTER A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. It will mean ocean-catch salmon will be much harder to...
GLEN SPAIN I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get inform...
BRECKIN MEYER That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the...
ARON RA It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole differ...
DONNIE WAHLBERG It's a good way to regain your flexibility. Much better than running. This takes the pounding, the p...
HARRY WILSON You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM It seems that we're being a whole lot more opportunistic all the way around.
JOHN ROUSH It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
DR. CARL SAGAN Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN With so much irregular structure in the outer Galaxy, it looks as though the Milky Way is still grow...
MARIO JURIC Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get muc...
JACOB SULLUM I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I...
ANDIE MACDOWELL But it doesn't work when the advisers disagree, and the president who doesn't know much has to make ...
WESLEY CLARK Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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ARIANA RICHARDS Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that...
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ERIC CHEN Pull away, even though it feels like career suicide. Go home. Rest, sleep, recharge, have fun with y...
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A.H. SCOTT I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way...
DAVE GIBBONS Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the...
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RACHEL LYNNE It can be. It can be crazier. It's not popular to be an outlaw anymore, so if you get into some trou...
TRACII GUNS It's easy to get caught up in the fanfare, and you can really see that a lot of people get into all ...
LEE MAY I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI It will help a lot. But we need more, we need much more, and we need it much faster.
JAN VANDERMOORTELE It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to wher...
ALLEN IVERSON Sometimes it goes their way; Sometimes it doesn't. Fortunately, it goes my way most every time I get...
LANCE JETER I'm pretty much all the way back. It took time to get over it. There's not much else you can do.
JASON CHAPPELL You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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GREGG NURRENBERN I couldn't sleep that night. Going 1-for-12 and putting so much into it as far as working on your sh...
DION HARRIS To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having...
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MARILYN MONROE Friends accept you the way you are.
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MARILYN MONROE We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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MARILYN MONROE When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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MARILYN MONROE I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it.
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MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
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MARILYN MONROE Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love, listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.
MARILYN MONROE Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I hav...
MARILYN MONROE It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for ...
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot
MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and litt...
MARILYN MONROE The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
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