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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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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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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
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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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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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