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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

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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
Depended
Mediocrity
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life

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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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I have an awfully good 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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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 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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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