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I have an awfully good life.

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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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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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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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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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