Molly Ivins Quotes

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

Molly Ivins

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• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Violence

• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Man
  • Myself

• He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Believe
  • True
  • Free

• Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Moral

• Bookstore boss: to Mo The self-service kiosks have enabled us to cut down on staff, but some customers still feel the need to speak to an actual human. That's where you come in.Customer: Excuse me, do you carry Jewish New Year cards?Boss: I'm sorry, our New Years cards don't come in till November. But we'll be getting Jewish Christmas cards then, too!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Service
  • Christmas
  • Sorry

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Strong

• When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

  

  Frank Stella
  • May
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

  

  Pericles

• External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

  

  Douglas Booth

• My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Career

• I start by moisturizing my face neck and chest with my own anti-aging SPF And IR Defense Sunblock called Recapture 360... Allow to sink in... Then I like Neutrogena's range of spray on sunblocks for body... then I use a foundation with SPF 30 or higher on my face to add yet another layer of protection to my face.

  

  Christie Brinkley

• A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Time

• Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

  

  David Hackworth
  • Real
  • Enemy

• I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Good
  • Work
  • Blessed

• When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Children
  • True
  • Future

• Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• Look at the leader of my country, he is somebody I cannot relate to at all. He is so far removed from me - politically, personally and morally.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Removed

• We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Country
  • Economics