Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
MARILYN MONROEThe thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
More Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.
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In spite of everything life is not without hope.
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Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
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I do what I like, I like what I do.
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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.
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It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.
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You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn’t you.
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Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,
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Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.
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I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
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It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
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I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.
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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.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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I restore myself when I’m alone.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
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You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.
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The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.
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