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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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