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Marilyn Monroe

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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE TV is expensive - and I'm not going to spend that kind of money. I think if they read my flier that ...
DUBOSE EGLESTON Californians can make up their own minds.
ROGER SALAZAR I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND If anybody wants him, they can make up their minds by watching him out on the pitch.
DAVID JEFFREY Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace.
RIG VEDA The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and ...
ROBERT FROST I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
HANNAH ARENDT If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
AIDAN GILLEN Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
SIR J. LUBBOCK I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitud...
MARILYN FERGUSON Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...
MARILYN MONROE A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le sou...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am counting on the last 14 days, that is the decisive time when undecided voters make up their min...
GERHARD SCHROEDER It was very clear from their testimony yesterday that they make up their minds based upon what the c...
WAYNE ABERNATHY Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the swee...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I would say gently and respectfully, they need to make up their minds. They need to fish or cut bait...
CHRIS VANCE People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.
GITTE LINDGAARD The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT They bring instant recognition to a campaign. Whether it's a print or a television one, when you sho...
MARK ROESLER Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...
FULTON J. SHEEN They're so anxious to finish the work quickly so they can make money, they will risk their lives.
ESTHER SANTIAGO The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
HAROLD R. MCALINDON The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
JOHN RUSKIN If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time...
BIPASHA BASU I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laug...
SUTTON FOSTER I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write ...
JAMES NORTON There are an awful lot of floating voters who make up their minds three seconds after they enter the...
STEVEN REED What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book....
TIBOR FISCHER I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all av...
EDWARD R. MURROW The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one sing...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Ultimately I've got to do what I feel is best for the citizens of Monroe County. If there are victim...
MIKE GREEN The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
AARON ALLSTON The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South j...
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they m...
MARLON WAYANS There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON It's a basic statement that you can make that turkeys gobble year round. Depending on their mood and...
RANDY SHOWALTER Geniuses can make the world a better place or make it fall apart alongside their own minds.
KEVIN SCHALLER Good people make good friends, and good friends make good choices, and good choices make good charac...
A.J. CHILSON If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.
P.C. CAST Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely de...
ATUL GAWANDE It's very good for him, ... I wouldn't go so far as to say it locks anything up, though, because peo...
PAUL BEGALA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their ...
MA JIAN They don't make good pets. They are extremely intelligent and always have escape on their minds. The...
MIKE PASTORE I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And...
MICHAEL GOVE Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake...
T.E. LAWRENCE I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home c...
DAVID CHANG A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
MARILYN MONROE I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossibl...
ELIZABETH WINDER Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.
MOLLY HASKELL But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the p...
PETE TOWNSHEND I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR They should consider that. But some people who know everything about everything can't make decisions...
BOB SANTOS All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE None of that information has been tested either through investigation or cross examination. I hope t...
LISA DUBS In that way they really were friends, understanding in their basic disagreement, trusting in their c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the di...
JANE KACZMAREK

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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.
MARILYN MONROE I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much ali...
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