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 definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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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 think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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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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I love Costco.
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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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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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People know that they can tune in to '60 Minutes' any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
