Molly Ivins Quotes

The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

Molly Ivins

• Thinking
• Kind
• Sacrifice
• Liberty
• Immigration
• Abortion
• Communism

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• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Someone
  • Been

• I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • First
  • Old

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Black
  • Style

• The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Women
  • Chance

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Angry

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Lips

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Response
  • Demonstrations
  • Counterproductive

• I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

  

  Negash Ali
  • Melody
  • Background
  • Mix

• Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Car

• I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Class

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice