Molly Ivins Quotes
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
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I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.
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People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.
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I rob banks because that's where the money is.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
