Molly Ivins Quotes
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.
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When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
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Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
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No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.
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All great novels are great fairy tales.
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With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
