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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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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