Molly Ivins Quotes
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I can do a gig without an instrument.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.
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When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
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If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
