Molly Ivins Quotes

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

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• It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
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• I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
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• The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

  

  Adam Green
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• I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

  

  Kara Walker
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• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
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• The assistants, the managers, the PR, the person whose coordinating, the person in production - those are the people I loved communicating with and building network relationships with.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People

• I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Art
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• There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

  

  Peter Bergen
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• I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

  

  Jane D. Hull

• It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.

  

  Kristen Wiig
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• You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

  

  Molly Ivins
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