To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.


Marilyn Monroe

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PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Give a girl the right shoes and she'll conquer the world.
ANONYMOUS
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered.
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OTTO PREMINGER
defending the religious freedom of Christians.
THE FOUNDATION
Gloria.
THE FOUNDATION
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
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GINA BROOKE
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Im hoping that shell talk after the ride about her experiences and the foundation a bit.
GABRIELLE MURPHY
I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths' live...
NYLE DIMARCO
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I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
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I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
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ANTONIO TABUCCHI
I just want to be wonderful.
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I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
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STEPHEN HAWKING
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EVE ARNOLD
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MIKE CONNER
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplis...
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You're the Executive Director of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation - a foundation that says it wa...
DAVID L. CALOF
It is pointless to build your life on a foundation of illusions
SUNDAY ADELAJA
They had demolished the existing brewery building and just put fill on top of the foundation.
BILL HOGAN
The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
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Why, kill yourself. Everyone BUT you win. To put it bluntly, your dead.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
[Analyst Michael Cannon put it more bluntly.] There's no bubble, ... The only bubble I know is gum.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built o...
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to w...
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Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a...
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Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
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I think we have set a really good foundation,
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Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.
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I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE
...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...
MARILYN MONROE
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monoton...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
MARILYN MONROE
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most importa...
MARILYN MONROE
(Joe) You’ve never heard such cheering,
MARILYN MONROE
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I do...
MARILYN MONROE
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd ...
MARILYN MONROE
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will r...
MARILYN MONROE
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times ha...
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.
MARILYN MONROE
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much ali...
MARILYN MONROE