Marlo Thomas Quotes
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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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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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.
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The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
