Molly Ivins Quotes
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
Larry Hogan -
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
Sam Francis -
I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
Rachel Tucker -
Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
B. D. Wong -
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
Jack Ma -
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
Kate Winslet
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam -
Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
Yair Lapid -
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
Edgar Winter -
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson -
The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
Yukio Mishima
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And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
Maisie Williams -
I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
Drew Curtis -
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
Ted Dekker -
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins