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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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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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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In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
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Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.
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I just think we're on this rock orbiting a sun that's going to go out, and I don't know that human society is necessarily a wonderful thing for the planet. I think people can be kind to one another and share things, but I don't know that this particular iteration of civilization is to be preferred to any other.
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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.
