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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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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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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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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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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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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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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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 been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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