Molly Ivins Quotes

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

Molly Ivins

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • World
  • Men
  • Forever

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Real
  • You

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Sense
  • Wrong
  • Often

• It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Best

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Believe
  • American
  • Think

• It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Will

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
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• The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Wind

• The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

  

  James Martineau

• Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Education
  • Moon
  • Values

• We live in Palo Alto, which has, fortunately, one of the greatest school districts in the country.

  

  Priscilla Chan
  • Live
  • Country
  • School

• I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Together
  • Career

• I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Lost
  • Broken

• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Things
  • All Things

• Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Politician