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.Molly Ivins
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
Ralph Merkle -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers -
Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
Nate Robinson -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Malcolm Gladwell
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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.
Larry Kramer -
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.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
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.
Jack Kevorkian -
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.
Zig Ziglar -
I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
Xavier Niel -
Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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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.
J. J. Watt -
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.
T. C. Boyle -
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi -
I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
Daniel Dennett -
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
Clayton Christensen
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
Paul Walker -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen -
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
Alphonso Jackson -
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Saint Francis de Sales -
There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.
Chris Sacca -
Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
Molly Ivins