Molly Ivins Quotes
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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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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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
