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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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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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