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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.
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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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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'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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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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