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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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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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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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 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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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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