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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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 have an awfully good life.
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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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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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