Cowboy Quotes - Page 5

• A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

  Gene Autry

  Enemy, Unfair Advantage, Unfair

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• Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Growing Up, Book, Native American

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Crazy, Mean

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• I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

  Ward Churchill

  Horse, Steel, Alive

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• I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.

  Adrian Peterson

  Team, Nfl, Dallas

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• My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

  Paul Walker

  Father, School, Protector

  "Paul Walker & Wayne Kramer—Running Scared". Interview With Groucho, Wayne Kramer, www.grouchoreviews.com. February 11, 2006.

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Horse, Yarn, Riding

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• Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy... But I am one hell of a stud!

  Jon Voight

  Real, May, Hell

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• Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

  Bob Dylan

  Angel, Clouds, Four

  Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala

  Eric Kripke

  Girl, Horse, Sunset

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• For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

  Demetri Martin

  Sound, Reason

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2013

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Hands, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I thought of telling him that if it wasn't for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would've been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fun, Mexican, Oklahomans

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Cows, Lovers, Asks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

  Mark Hoppus

  Country, Son, Hair

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• When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

  Morgan Freeman

  Morning, Kids, Pistols

  "Morgan Freeman on econophysics, Easy Reader, and The Shawshank Redemption". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 4, 2014.

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• As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Kids, Color, Giving

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

  Davy Crockett

  Texas

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• When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.

  Olivier Martinez

  Dad, Kids, Class

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

  Steven Pinker

  Hair, Long, Events

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Work, Passion, Details

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• [President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader.

  Jon Stewart

  Fighting, Soldier, President

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  Magnus

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.

  Colette Freedman

  Thinking, Mash Up, Pirate

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Paper

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