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 think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
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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
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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
  • Outside
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• 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
  • Thought

• 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
  • Catholic
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• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
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  • Self

• 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
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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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• Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Week

• I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Made
  • Lord
  • Willing

• Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Environment

• Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

  

  George Jung
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Molly Ivins
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