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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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 most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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