Marlo Thomas Quotes

There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

Marlo Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1937

Topics

BusinessThinkAttentionPlansWill

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

John Hurt

GodGreatBestDeathRacingYou

Growing your own garden is way less expensive than going out shopping and eating.

Anna Getty

ShoppingEatingGardenGrowingWay

I don't care for physical activity. I'm not sporty. I'm not very coordinated.

Anna Kendrick

CareActivityPhysical ActivityVery

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Anna Lindh

JusticePovertySecurityMoralMust

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Jeffrey Skoll

PeopleMake A DifferenceEnoughGoal

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

BusinessBeginningYouRealThrough

In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

John Van Hamersveld

TogetherWordsCrazyWorldFace

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Amy Poehler

ComedyDoingYouSketchLikeGiant

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

Si Robertson

BusinessCollegeSayingGeniusDoing

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

Mike Mills

RespectWorldSuitsDoingMagicYou

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Donald Glover

FunnyJobThinkNothingEverything

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

LifeGreatArtDeathGenuineAlways

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