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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
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy 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.
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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.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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