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I have an awfully good life.
Ann Richards
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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
Awfully
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Life
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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.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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