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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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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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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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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 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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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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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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 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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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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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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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