Molly Ivins Quotes
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
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I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
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When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
