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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
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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 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 said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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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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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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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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I have an awfully good 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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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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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