Mark Thomas Quotes
People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
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People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
