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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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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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
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If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.
