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've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• 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

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• 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

• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Future

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 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'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

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

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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

• A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• No, they said they do not believe in evolution, then they said the biggest threat to America: religious radicals living in the Dark Ages.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Believe
  • America
  • Dark

• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moving
  • Memorable
  • Bones

• Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Friends
  • Pride
  • Forget

• 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