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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.
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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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 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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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