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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I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.
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With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
