Molly Ivins Quotes
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.
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I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.
