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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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'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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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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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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