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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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Dorothy Ann Richards
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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 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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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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