Marlo Thomas Quotes
If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.
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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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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
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I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
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Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.
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If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.
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If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.
