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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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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.
Ann Richards
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
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.
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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.
Ann Richards
