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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.
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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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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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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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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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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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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