Molly Ivins Quotes
Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
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As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
