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Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962

Topics

Beauty Imperfection Better Madness

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Children Great Man People Small

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

War Memory American Enough Still

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

Nature Fight People Voice Speak Up

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Pain Reality Enjoy Sometimes Accept

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

Think Emotions Said Rhetoric Heat

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

Monica Bellucci

Beginning Know Difficult Actress

I want to be relatable. I want to be the guy that people root for.

People Want Guy Root

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Anything Seen Sense Subtle Sinister

If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo.

Think Will President Real Years Us

Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

Douglas Rushkoff

Shoes Value People Early New Way

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

Creative Down Charge Studio Came

I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.

Colleen Ballinger

Work Day Tomorrow Me Crazy Believe

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