Molly Ivins Quotes
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
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I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
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I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.
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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
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It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!
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An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.
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If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it.
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Europe will stay engaged in all fields, economically, politically and in the security field.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
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Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
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We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
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I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird.
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
