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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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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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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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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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There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I have an awfully good life.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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