Molly Ivins Quotes

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

Molly Ivins

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• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Women
  • Society
  • Stronger

• You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Human

• I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Up
  • Path
  • End

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • May
  • Problem

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Lord
  • Little
  • Naive

• I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Company
  • Puppy

• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• There are three juridical attributes that inseparably belong to the citizen by right. These are:

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Right
  • Citizen
  • Attributes

• We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God

• I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sports

• When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler

• I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • Famous

• 'You and I don’t actually need to be here for this,' I said to the goat. The goat didn’t respond, but I could tell she agreed with me.

  

  John Scalzi
  • She

• Head south let's all bring it in for Wally, Eazy sees uncle Charlie Little Boo, but God's got him and I'm gonna miss everybody.

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • God

• It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

  

  Louis Finkelstein
  • May
  • War
  • Peace

• My next desire is, void of care and strife,To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:A country cottage near a crystal flood,A winding valley, and a lofty wood.

  

  John Dryden
  • Life
  • Country
  • Desire

• To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Faith
  • Prove
  • Human Reason

• It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Party
  • Differences
  • Prove