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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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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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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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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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.
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I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.
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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
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In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
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Nothing fazes Nancy. She's always laughing and singing and happy. She's popular and well adjusted and gets straight A's in school. Where did we go wrong? Why isn't she crazy like the rest of the family?
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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.
