Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
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When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.
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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
