Molly Ivins Quotes
Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
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The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
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I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
