Molly Ivins Quotes

I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills.

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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A sketch is just a mini movie.

Jim Rash

SketchJustMiniMovie

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

John Lydon

GoodMarriageSorryBetterNothing

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Robert Higgs

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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

Andy Stanley

GodPlanningOrderSystemsHonors

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

InnovationIdeasEnergyOpportunities

Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.

Rob Lowe

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I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

FunDoingBackMoviesStartedWeb

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

Jason Bateman

GreatStepYouWantUpAdulthood

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

Jason Isbell

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Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Joni Mitchell

StupidShallowSinceDecided

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

Chris Gethard

SmileGoodPeopleMeYouSay

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

Che Guevara

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