Texas Quotes - Page 11

• I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

  Molly Ivins

  Saws

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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

  Bianca Jagger

  Home, Office, President

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• When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

  Norah Jones

  Country, New York, Causes

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• There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic thing, it's a how hard are you willing to work for it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Guy, Made, Bigs

  "THE FESTIVA INTERVIEW: Gabriel Iglesias". Interview With Sandra Gonzalez, www.themonitor.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

  Edward Kennedy

  Leadership, War, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

  Steve Young

  Moving, Home, Nashville

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

  John Hawkes

  Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2010.

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• My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.

  Zach Anner

  Workout, Brother, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

  Jan Brewer

  Jobs, Government, California

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

  Kinky Friedman

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Be Grateful

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• Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

  Stephen Ambrose

  California, Would Be, Mexico

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• Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

  John Bolton

  Party, Republican, States

  Source: www.texastribune.org

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• Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

  Ed Gillespie

  College, Republican, Cornerstones

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• You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.

  Robert Griffin III

  Cheer, Cowboy, Easy

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• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  Larry Hagman

  Travel, Kids, Guy

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• Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

  Jerry Hall

  Twenties, Fourteen, Wells

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Years

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• Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

  Richard Linklater

  Years, People, Proud

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• [I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great sense of community. They cared about their neighbors. And those values, I think, have stood me well.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Running for governor of Texas against a very popular governor [incumbent Ann Richards] was deemed to be risky. Everybody thought I would lose. As I put in my book, my mother said, "You're going to lose!"

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Running, Book

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The fact remains that we're running a presidential campaign. And we're doing that through appearances like today, fund-raisers like today, where Donald Trump was in Texas, raising money, not just for the trump campaign, but, drumroll, please, for the RNC and the Republican committees, which benefits all these candidates that Paul Ryan is trying to protect.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Presidential, Trying

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

  Christina Milian

  Cowboy, Littles, Intimidating

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

  Quindon Tarver

  Jesus, Singing, Grandfather

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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