Molly Ivins Quotes
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
Molly Ivins
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
Yunjin Kim
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The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.
E. O. Wilson
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Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
Carl von Clausewitz
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
Bruce Cockburn
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I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
Daniel Goldstein
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I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"
Sarah Paulson
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Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.
Valérie Quennessen
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Thomas Carlyle
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What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
Kurt Browning
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
Molly Ivins
