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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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.
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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