Molly Ivins Quotes
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
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My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.
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The longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
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The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.
