Marlo Thomas Quotes
I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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People take things so seriously.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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Let us have peace.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
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Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms and now there's this terrorism thing that everybody's focused on, which is really a boondoggle in my opinion. It's just an excuse to clamp down on people's free speech. And corporations intimidate people and everybody's gotten intimidated and that's really what it is, and they just keep going along. It's almost like - a little bit like that Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, or 1984, Orwell
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
