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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

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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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Hell
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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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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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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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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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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'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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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