Inspiring Quotes - Page 32

• Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Winning, Acting, Done

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• Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Brando, Mines

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• People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Believe, People

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• Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.13, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Husband, Boredom, Dying

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• Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Important, Movement, Problem

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• I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Names, Too Late, Late

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• I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Complaining, Asking, Way

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.15, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hate, Blue, Jeans

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• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Acting, Too Much, Fantasy

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I don't digest things with my mind.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Mind

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• Happiness never becomes a habit.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Habit

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• As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Long, People, Remember

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• As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Spiritual Disciplines, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell

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• A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

  Henry Ford

  Education, College, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Memories, Men

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Attitude, Ignorance

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Firsts

  Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “The Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Littles, Classroom

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Real, School

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.167, 谷月社

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• There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, People, Intellectual

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Men, Gathering

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.168, 谷月社

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  The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.167, 谷月社

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• Be the Woman You Want to Be.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Want, Intriguing

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