Molly Ivins Quotes

People like to help. They like to be able to do something for you. Let them.

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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I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Jill Scott

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Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

Jerry Stiller

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

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L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

Suki Waterhouse

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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner

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As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Rithy Panh

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Now we're dealing with a younger generation of terrorists that are very, very savvy with computer skills, very savvy over the Internet, and very savvy with social media of the likes that we have never seen before.

Michael McCaul

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I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

Joy Mangano

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Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

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I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Jordan Peele

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When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

Jonathan Groff

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I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Dermot Mulroney

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