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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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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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