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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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