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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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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 saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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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.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I have an awfully good life.
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