Molly Ivins Quotes

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

Molly Ivins

• America
• Paradise
• Nations
• Manners
• Polite

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Green
  • Loved
  • Teamwork

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• Agreements are always the product of time and place.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Time
  • Always
  • Place

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

  

  Jack Germond
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Political

• My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.

  

  Pooja Hegde

• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • America
  • Know
  • Story

• The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

  

  William Allen White
  • Moral
  • Talent
  • Manners

• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Real
  • America
  • Trouble

• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • America
  • Paradise
  • Nations