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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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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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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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
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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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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
