Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
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Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.
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The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the 'superstar,' and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's fucking up rock, a subspecies of the virus I spoke of earlier that infests our culture from popstars to politics.
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You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.
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What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
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I keep things pretty simple.
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I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
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You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
