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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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Mostly
Hair
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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'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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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