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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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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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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 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 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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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