Molly Ivins Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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I'm not good at multi-tasking.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
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The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.
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I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
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By the way, Mr. Premier: Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.
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If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
