Molly Ivins Quotes

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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  • Human
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• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
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• I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
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  • Philadelphia

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
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• Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Me
  • Myself
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• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
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  • Just

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
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• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
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• Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Time
  • Shadow
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• Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Children
  • Change

• Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.

  

  Majora Carter
  • You
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• Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Wish

• There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

  

  James Mattis
  • Discipline

• Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Business
  • Hair

• Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • People

• With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

  

  John Collison
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

  

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