Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

My own style is one of not much effort.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Time destroys everything.

I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't.