Marlo Thomas Quotes
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
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The most important thing is to understand that this career is not about speed. It's about stamina. This is a marathon. It's not a 50-meter sprint. You have to persevere and understand it takes a lot of time. You have to know you're going to knock on 100 doors and 99 of them are going to close in your face.
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The garden that is finished is dead.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
