Molly Ivins Quotes

I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't feel well. I think I'll take the day off.' I think I did that even a little bit more than I needed to.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

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When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

Melissa Etheridge

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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

Anatoli Boukreev

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I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

Amy Poehler

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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

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I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Mike Scully

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Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.

Michael Servetus

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You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Derek Jeter

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My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

Debbie Ford

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The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Chuck Noll

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Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

Bonnie Hammer

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Arthur Henderson

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I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

Asma Jahangir

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