Molly Ivins Quotes

One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don't, you shut it down. It works to our benefit - it always has.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceBorderTexasLongYou

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

John Bytheway

WorkLoveSolutionYouFindKnow

Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.

Andrew Yang

BusinessTodayNew YorkPeopleDrive

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

Alveda King

LeaderShowHimself

It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'

Rob Thomas

FunnyGoodGirlDaughterTeacher

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

Romeo Miller

BackAlwaysBringReportCard

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Michael Strahan

ConfidenceOpportunityTimeManStep

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

Judith Jamison

AgeClassStudyingBallet

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Janet Yellen

GivingLongRunEconomyTradeUs

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

ValuesFeelingHatredExtinction

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

Joseph Stiglitz

GreatTrustWithoutDivideFunction

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Donald Judd

MomentExperienceThinkYouKind

I work in L.A. from time to time.

Chris Diamantopoulos

WorkTimeFrom Time To Time

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