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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
Awfully
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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'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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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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 saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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