Molly Ivins Quotes
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.
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So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
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Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.
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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
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I could not be more thankful to those who voted me through and believed in me.
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The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
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Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.
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This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
