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.
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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.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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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.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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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.
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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.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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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.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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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.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
