| In Esquire magazine’s regular “What I’ve | | | | sclerosis, and AIDS. Some that are really, really |
| Learned” section, heiress, celebutante and overall | | | | special, I keep in storage for my daughters. They'll be |
| media princess Paris Hilton hands out a few nuggets | | | | vintage by then. I think my daughters will love |
| of wisdom. It’s not surprising that someone as | | | | them.” |
| saturated in the limelight can have some pretty | | | | “The best thing I've ever bought with money is |
| out-there ideas about herself. Nonetheless, anything | | | | my house. I call it my Paris Palace. It's beautiful. Every |
| that comes out of Paris’s pink, puckered mouth | | | | room has beautiful crystal chandeliers and amazing |
| is very amusing to us regular folk, at the very least. | | | | moldings from Italy. When people come over they |
| Here are just a few excerpts from the section: | | | | say, ‘Hey, this looks just like you.’” |
| “There are definitely a lot of misconceptions | | | | “Because of my last name and the way I look, |
| about me out there. ‘Oh, she doesn't work. She | | | | some people think I'm a spoiled brat. But I'm not like |
| doesn't do anything. She just gets money from her | | | | that at all. I'm one of the most down-to-earth people |
| family.’ That's not true at all. I was up making | | | | I know out of anyone in Hollywood.” |
| phone calls at seven in the morning, and I'll be | | | | “Things may seem to naturally come my way. |
| working until 1:00 A.M.” | | | | But I work hard for them, too. I have good |
| “I was the oldest granddaughter. Everyone was | | | | karma.” |
| so excited that I was born; they would always take | | | | “You may not be able to be hot when you're |
| pictures of me. My grandma would call me Marilyn | | | | seventy-five in a conventional sense. Like, young |
| Monroe or Grace Kelly. Ever since I was little, it's | | | | people won't think you're hot. But your husband will, |
| what I knew I wanted to do--be a blond icon.” | | | | and so will people your own age.” |
| “Once I've worn a dress, I can never wear it | | | | For more celebrity news and gossip, visit Celebrity |
| again. I give them to charities and they auction them | | | | Gossip Hollywood. |
| off to help people with breast cancer, multiple | | | | |