Cowboy Quotes - Page 8

• What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Play, People

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). Sounds like some writers.

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• Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

  Lee Iacocca

  Growing Up, Kids, Want

  Lee A. Iacocca (1994). “I Gotta Tell You: Speeches of Lee Iacocca”, p.93, Wayne State University Press

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• I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.

  Michael Stipe

  New York, Jealous, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that guy or he can play this guy." You're not just "THAT guy," that cowboy guy, that whatever guy. Then you are limiting yourself.

  Scott Eastwood

  Play, People, Guy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

  John Hodgman

  Men, Elderly, Flying

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Suits You, Ties

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• For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

  Edmund White

  Real, Believe, Home

  1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

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• I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

  Bryan Cranston

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

  "Bryan Cranston Talks ROCK OF AGES, DRIVE, JOHN CARTER, Reveals He’s Writing and Directing HOME AGAIN and Says He Almost Did X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.

  Emmitt Smith

  Yesterday, Issues, Dallas

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• I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.

  Michael J. Fox

  Fighting, Son, Victory

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

  John Baldessari

  Horse, Fall, Kissing

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• My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

  Austin Butler

  Horse, Growing Up, Texas

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

  Dustin Lynch

  Love, Country, Song

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• I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

  Meg Cabot

  Soul, Ghost, Bedroom

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.166, Pan Macmillan

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• I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Crazy, Shoes, Boots

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.

  Roseanne Barr

  Crush, Thinking, Wife

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• No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

  Paul Weller

  Men, Should Have, Boots

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• Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.

  Jerry Jones

  Giants, Watches, Ass

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• I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

  Billy Campbell

  Independent, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

  Chris Colfer

  Country, Artist, Parent

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• I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

  Dave Brubeck

  Way, Jazz, Involved

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• I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

  James Herbert

  Book, Kids, Other Worlds

  "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Men

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up.

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Boots, Shut Up

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