Molly Ivins Quotes
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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We want you to pay attention.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
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I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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We should have more invention.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
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It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
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There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
