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Molly Ivins Quotes

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Powerful Satire Against Powerless

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

Good Anything Things Berries Recipes

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

Going Different Happens Other Once

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

Opportunity Happy People Listening

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

Robert H. Schuller

Name Honor Real Jesus Minister

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

Energy Efficiency Doubt Play Lead

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Poverty You Look Know Hard Well

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

Great Yourself Down Earth Way

The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

You Know Been Do You Know Should

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Grief Suffering Writing Powerful

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Fun Writing Playground Most Much

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

Time Money Early Create Too Much

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