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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.'
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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'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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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