Molly Ivins Quotes

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyLiberal

I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.

John Hillcoat

FeelingsMoreBigThanCorporations

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

KnowAshamedParliament

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Andy Goldsworthy

FireI AmBecomeHeatCautiousAm

I think I only went to college because it was close to the karate school.

Michael Israel

SchoolCollegeThinkBecauseOnly

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

John Vane

AgeSchoolKingHigh SchoolHigh

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Steve Guttenberg

LovePowerMoneyYouFameWorking

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Smedley Butler

LifeGreatWarRealizeSoldierDid

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

Robert T. Bakker

LifeHistoryMeStoryStrongImpact

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

Jason Fried

MotivationMeetingsToo MuchSpice

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

Dorothy Allison

SchoolMeSisterGrowing UpSaying

I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.

Doug Liman

LifeWorkFatherExperienceIdentity

I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

Asa Butterfield

SchoolMeWorldPersonOutsideFilm

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