Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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All my life I've heard people say, 'God loves you.' It's probably the most insane statement you could make to say that the eternal Creator of this universe is in love with me. There is a response that ought to take place in believers, a crazy reaction to that love. Do you really understand what God has done for you? If so, why is response so lukewarm?
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My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
