Molly Ivins Quotes

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Joe Klein

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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

John Burroughs

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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

John Dickerson

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Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

John Knoll

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Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Robert Higgs

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Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Amy Alcott

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I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

Stephen Pagliuca

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As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.

Sidharth Malhotra

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If you're not in the WWE and bouncing around in the Indy shows, you're not with the best.

Rob Van Dam

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I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

Roger Ailes

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The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt

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Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Douglas Booth

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