Molly Ivins Quotes
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.
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Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.
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He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too
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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
