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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Nothing Lasts Forever

“Do you always throw your money away like this?"

"Only when I'm in love,”
― Sidney Sheldon, Nothing Lasts Forever

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“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?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Her Life In Her Own Words

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

“You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Nothing Lasts Forever

“I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Sands of Time

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight