Molly Ivins Quotes
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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As a magician works with the unique compressibility of doves, finding some, losing others in the same silk foulard, so the rebels fold scratchy, relaxed meanings into their smallest actions.
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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
