Molly Ivins Quotes
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.
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I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.
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The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
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I wasn't sure I found that particularly reassuring, but in the event of an attack I wasn't going to be as much use as Thomas 'Oh sorry, was that your Tiger Tank?' Nightingale.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
