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Molly Ivins Quotes

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Speak Stand American Media

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Me Grandchildren Young Keep

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Work Writing Book American Drawing

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Jesse Eisenberg

Experience Joy Me You Look Acting

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

Michael Connelly

Business Drive Book Think Year Kind

I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.

Love Women Inspire Important Young

There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.

Marriage Woman Man Strong You Act

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

Robert Baden-Powell

Know England Cavalry He Should

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

Life Family Fighting My Life I Can

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Michael Scheuer

Respect Die Numbers Going Until Bin

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Identity People Think Always Double

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

Mind Body Connected Spirit Pieces

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Someone You Afraid Lead Seems Tend

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