Molly Ivins Quotes
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
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I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.
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The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to take it down. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.
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I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
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Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.
