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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'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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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