Molly Ivins Quotes
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
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Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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Bookstore boss: to Mo The self-service kiosks have enabled us to cut down on staff, but some customers still feel the need to speak to an actual human. That's where you come in.Customer: Excuse me, do you carry Jewish New Year cards?Boss: I'm sorry, our New Years cards don't come in till November. But we'll be getting Jewish Christmas cards then, too!
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
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I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
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First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
