Molly Ivins Quotes
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.
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I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.
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When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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Modern capitalism has as little use for liberum arbitrium undisciplined persons as laborers as it has for the businessman fully without scruples in the running of his company.
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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?
