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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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 very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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