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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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I know: Guns Don't Kill People. But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, Bang, bang, you're dead, not much actually happens.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions? I asked her. That's why we take siestas, she replied.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
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