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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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 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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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