Molly Ivins Quotes
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
