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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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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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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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