Molly Ivins Quotes
We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.
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If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.