Molly Ivins Quotes

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

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• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
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• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
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• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
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• Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Different
  • History
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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Humanity
  • Individual
  • Crime

• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Slave
  • Stomach

• I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Life
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• Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Movie
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• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
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  • Right

• In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Wish
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• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
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• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Rehearsing

• The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Government
  • Violence

• I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Numbers

• The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Progress
  • Hiv
  • TB

• The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Support
  • Responsibility
  • Leader

• During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Government
  • Stories
  • Should