Molly Ivins Quotes
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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Eyes-the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'
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A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
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I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.
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In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
