Molly Ivins Quotes
Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
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First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.
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Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.
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All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.
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The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
