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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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Hair
Men
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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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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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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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 have an awfully good life.
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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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