"Important people are much more interesting when..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe
Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.
More by Marilyn Monroe
“In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.”
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”
“Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.”
More on Authenticity
“It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.”
“Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
More on Humanity
“There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.”
“It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity”