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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.

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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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