Molly Ivins Quotes

Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.

Molly Ivins

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Author Biography

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

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I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards

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So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Matthew Lillard

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If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

Stephen Colbert

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Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

Tom Sizemore

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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have interest in movie, you know? Because I like the visual aspect of the movies, et cetera.

Tommy Wiseau

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First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

Tom Jones

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Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

Robert Whittaker

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The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Derek Bok

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There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

Derek Jeter

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As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

Dee Rees

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Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Chuck Hagel

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle

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