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 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'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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• The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.

  

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• The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

  

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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.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Heart
  • Born
  • Sorry