Molly Ivins Quotes
I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
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'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?
