Marlo Thomas Quotes

A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

Marlo Thomas

• Children
• American
• Society
• Health
• Care
• Vulnerable

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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• Bad ballplayers make good managers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Managers

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Body
  • Building
  • Hell

• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Space
  • Learn

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Job
  • Actor

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• Alix MacKenzie had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Children
  • Home
  • Care

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Women
  • American
  • Community

• When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Habits

• The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

  

  Umar
  • Work
  • Today
  • Action

• A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • American
  • Society