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 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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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 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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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
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Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.
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I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.
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Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
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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.
