Marlo Thomas Quotes
I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.
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Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.
