Marisa Berenson Quotes

#1. I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.

Marisa Berenson

#2. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#3. Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Marisa Berenson

#5. A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

Gregory Chaitin

#6. I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.

Marisa Berenson

#7. I did not expect to fall in love with this world, not so quickly, but with the blueness of the sky and the shimmer of the sun on the lake behind me, I am spellbound.

C.M. Stunich

#8. My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Marisa Berenson

#9. I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.

George R R Martin

#10. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Clarence Darrow

#11. When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Marisa Berenson

#12. For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Russell Lynes

#13. Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to

Ken Kesey

#14. When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Tony Benn

#15. As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Marisa Berenson

#16. We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

Julia Gillard

#17. A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

Marisa Berenson

#18. I adored my father - I was more attached to him than anyone.

Marisa Berenson

#19. I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

Marisa Berenson

#20. I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

Marisa Berenson

#21. When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Jane Fonda

#22. I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.

Marisa Berenson

#23. More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#24. There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.

Noam Chomsky