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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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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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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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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 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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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 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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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