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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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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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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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
