Marlo Thomas Quotes

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

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• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Why
  • Art
  • Stop

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Everything
  • Year
  • Will

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Home
  • Think

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
  • Tomorrow

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Beginning
  • Exercise
  • Start

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Know
  • Improvement
  • Go

• Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Life
  • Art
  • Dream

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Time

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power