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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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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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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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 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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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