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Former Governor Of Texas Inspirational Quotes (56)

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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
Ann Richards
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
Ann Richards
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July does not a November election make.
Ann Richards
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
Ann Richards
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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
Ann Richards
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
Ann Richards
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One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
Ann Richards
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Ann Richards
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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
Ann Richards
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
Ann Richards
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
Ann Richards
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
Ann Richards
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
Ann Richards
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Ann Richards
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Ann Richards
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
Ann Richards
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
Ann Richards
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Ann Richards
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Ann Richards
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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
Ann Richards
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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards
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