Molly Ivins Quotes

Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleTreatTexasAmericaProblem

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

Jimmy Wales

GoogleExist

Instead of going to spring training, I went to basic training.

Jesse White

TrainingSpringGoingBasicInstead

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

John Hawkes

ThinkI ThinkOurselvesMysteries

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

Megyn Kelly

GodPeopleBabyFeelYouSay

I made a big mistake of my life.

Robert Jenkins

LifeMistakeMy LifeBigMade

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

John Vane

MedicalResearchBackStudyOrder

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

John Updike

HeartAppreciationAestheticHand

What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter what they're wearing, no matter if they're inappropriately dressed, no matter if their hair's not really done right, eyebrows haven't been tweezed.

Soledad O'Brien

BeautifulGreatStylePeopleHair

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Craig Hatkoff

FutureSchoolComputersHigh School

For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.

Chris Pine

LoveFutureFunMeIdeasTeam

Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.

Bobby Womack

TimeMeNightYouDoneThree

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Armistead Maupin

LoveFunBlindSaidAlwaysLike

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