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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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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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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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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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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The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
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We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.
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Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.
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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.
