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.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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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.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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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.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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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.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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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.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
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I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
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Isolationism is not leadership.
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The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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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.
