Molly Ivins Quotes

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

InspirationalHomeGodTimeMoral

My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.

John F. Kelly

TimeBeerFirst TimeFirstVietnam

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.' We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there's no boots on the ground.

John F. Kelly

WomanManSacrificePeopleBoots

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

Soledad O'Brien

InvestingMothersMoveBecause

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

Michelle Alexander

ControlCooperationSystemAlmost

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Janet Yellen

WorkJobLoseDownSkillsBecome

I loved being in my sister's room. I really admired her and wore her clothes to play in, played with her dolls, played with her makeup. She had a mirror with settings to see what you would look like in different lighting. I thought that was amazing.

Chelsea Manning

MirrorAmazingSisterMakeupThought

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

HistoryWorldPoliticalAmericaLook

Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

GeniusMeaningWayAbilityModern

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Suzan DelBene

FutureTodayWorldLookImportant

When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?

Ty Dolla Sign

SoundOutAnythingLikeBootDid

There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.

Ken Liu

GoodTimeWorldFreeStoryWay

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

Kiefer Sutherland

TurnComingUpKeepSomethingWell

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