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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.
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Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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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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On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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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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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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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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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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