Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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CASSADEE POPE My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON We market Shania [Twain] like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally.
DAVID LORY She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the video...
FAITH HILL While I was backstage before presenting the Best New Artist award, I talked to George Strait for a w...
TAYLOR SWIFT Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Maril...
NICHOLAS SAMSTAG I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. ...
MARILYN MONROE Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I lo...
MARILYN MONROE When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laug...
MARILYN MONROE I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER 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 If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
DWAYNE HICKMAN From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it sh...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know wh...
JAMES MCBRIDE For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
MARILYN MONROE You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
MARILYN MONROE Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalit...
MARK ROESLER He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album ref...
EMINEM I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went pl...
BEYONCE KNOWLES I saw Marilyn Manson. He had, like, the platinum grills, and that's when I got my first ones. An...
LIL UZI VERT People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER [If Ryan left an indelible mark on the game, it was his] 46 ... like calling Marilyn Monroe just ano...
DOUG PLANK I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would...
JOHN TRAVOLTA There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON 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 I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credi...
BARRY HUMPHRIES People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way t...
VIJENDER SINGH When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
MARILYN MONROE Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental proble...
REBECCA DE MORNAY Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two,...
HALSEY Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music...
BONO My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays ...
ROGER EBERT What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, a...
RICHARD AVEDON I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper tha...
LA'PORSHA RENAE You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found...
KENDRICK LAMAR My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations ...
GLORIA STEINEM Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sens...
PETER GOLENBOCK Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...
GLORIA STEINEM My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you ...
AFROJACK I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boob...
KATY PERRY As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in ...
CATHERINE HICKS If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling wi...
DON DOKKEN In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumi...
PHILLIP PHILLIPS At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not...
PATRICK MOORE If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and wha...
NINA GARCIA Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident...
TAMSIN EGERTON In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which...
LIL UZI VERT A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing ...
RANDY TRAVIS Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the...
JAMIE FOXX If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced mayb...
ERIK HASSLE In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitel...
ADELE I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
TAYLOR HANSON Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking th...
MARILYN MANSON I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pur...
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MARK TWAIN When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
MARK TWAIN In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
MARK TWAIN Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evils.
MARK TWAIN His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
MARK TWAIN Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN