Marlo Thomas Quotes

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

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• I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Together
  • Doing

• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Marriage

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.

  

  Carson Cistulli
  • Different
  • Fall
  • Baseball

• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Daily

• I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

  

  Dennis Franz
  • People
  • Character

• I have to give my wife props on this..3 years of literal blood sweat and tears working on getting mylittle coco right and she’s finally ready for the world to see it!

  

  Marvin Humes
  • Wife
  • Working
  • Tears

• It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Important