Molly Ivins Quotes

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Government
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• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

  

  Earl Browder
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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
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• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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  • Middle

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
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• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
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  • Acceptance

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Desire
  • Fall

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trust
  • Innovation
  • Conflict

• We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Government
  • Conflict

• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • Question
  • Church

• The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Leader
  • Conflict

• One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Conflict
  • Greatest

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Harmony
  • Conflict

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Evolution
  • Conflict

• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Obvious
  • Vulgarity
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• I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

  

  Casey Wilson
  • People
  • Comedy

• If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Times
  • Million
  • Interrupted

• If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Conflict
  • Middle
  • Obvious