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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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 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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I have an awfully good life.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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