Molly Ivins Quotes

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

• Fun
• Freedom
• Justice
• Forget
• Cat
• Laughter
• Lord

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Very

• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Dream

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • May
  • Risk

• The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven

• Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

  

  Christian Kane
  • School
  • Together
  • Friend

• If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.

  

  Donald Norman

• I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Live

• I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.

  

  Craig Sager
  • People
  • Good

• I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • American

• I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • People
  • Long
  • Water

• The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

  

  Edward Robb Ellis
  • Television
  • Madness
  • Rate

• I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Audience
  • Blood

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Having Fun

• Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Fun
  • Sometimes
  • Practice

• So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • Justice