Molly Ivins Quotes
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.
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You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.