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July does not a November election make.
Ann Richards
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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I have an awfully good life.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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