Molly Ivins Quotes
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.
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Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
