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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
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Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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As far as I'm concerned, what I do is not a crime, because I'm only making people laugh, ... So I'm only being naughty, like a naughty boy. Anything is open to streaking. As long as you perform it in the right way, in the right context.
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It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.
