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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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 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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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 can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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