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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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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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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There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only 'hooking,' while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
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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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I have only an office here, and no opinion.
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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
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Take a sip from the cup of death...
