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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
Men

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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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 have an awfully good life.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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 think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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