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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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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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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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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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
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The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
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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.
