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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.
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 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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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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 have an awfully good life.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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