Molly Ivins Quotes
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
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God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.
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The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
