Molly Ivins Quotes
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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Sometimes, you know, bad is good.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
