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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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'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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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