Marilyn Monroe
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“My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. 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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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there…
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“I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‘Hi,’ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I think I have always had a little humor.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it’s based on femininity.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” -Marilyn Monroe
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest. – Marilyn Monroe
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you. – Marilyn Monroe
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