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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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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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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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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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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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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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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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.
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The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.