"But chiefly, no lies! No lies about..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
More by Marilyn Monroe
“I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.”
“Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”
“Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”
More on Truth
“What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!”
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.”
“One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”
More on Honesty
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.”
“When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.”
“Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.”