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Marilyn Monroe
Quotes by Marilyn Monroe
Quotes by Marilyn Monroe
“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
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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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“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
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“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
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“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
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“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
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“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
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“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
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“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
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“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
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“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
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“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
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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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“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.”
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“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”
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“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
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“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”
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“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”
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“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”
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“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
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“I've never dropped anyone I believed in.”
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“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
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“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”
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“If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.”
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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.”
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“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
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“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
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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.”
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