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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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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 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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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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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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 have an awfully good life.
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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'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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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