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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If people hate me they hate me.
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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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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.
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I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.
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Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but 'for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles.'
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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.