Texan Quotes - Page 3

• She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Blood, Born

  Simone Elkeles (2014). “Better Than Perfect: A Wild Cards Novel”, p.168, A&C Black

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• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cowboy, People

  Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

  Gary Busey

  Oklahoma, Texas, Grew Up

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Eight, Years

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• The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.

  Jim Otto

  Games, Dallas, Firsts

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• Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.

  Gail Collins

  Appreciation, People, Water

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

  Burt Reynolds

  Wells

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• I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

  Miranda Lambert

  Thinking, Fire, People

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• It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

  Marc Veasey

  Rights, Appreciate, Justice

  "Celebrating LBJ’s Legacy: A Reminder of Texas’ Civil Rights Challenges Today" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Odessa, Proud

  "Is this my house?' Childhood home visit hints that Jeb is from Texas but not of it" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.

  George W. Bush

  Blessed, Raised, Feels

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

  Adam Hochschild

  Sports, Football, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Real, America, States

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• I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

  Ted Cruz

  Texas, Jewels, Tuesday

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

  Donald E. Graham

  Mind, East, I Realized

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• I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

  George Michael

  Years, Six, Kenny

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• Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Games, Nfl

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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.

  Ann Richards

  Texas, Two, Special

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• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Past, Fire, Generosity

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• If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

  Kinky Friedman

  Ifs

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Fighting, Texas, Knives

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

  John Graves

  Thinking, Annoyed, Southern

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• I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

  Kinky Friedman

  Dream, Want, Chance

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Color, Different

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.4, Vintage

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