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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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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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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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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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.
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I'm not an improv guy.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
