Marlo Thomas Quotes
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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.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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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.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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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.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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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.
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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.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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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.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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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.
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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.
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The Library is the heart of the University.
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There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.
