Texas Quotes - Page 17

• In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.

  Henry Bonilla

  Running, Moving, Home

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• Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

  Edna Ferber

  Way, Easier, Bourbon

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

  Ian Frazier

  Government, America, Benefits

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Liberty, Intrusion

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.

  Barack Obama

  America, People, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

  Marisol Nichols

  Mom, Years, Feelings

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• Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

  Louis Sachar

  Writing, Holes, Reactions

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• The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

  John Waters

  People, Hitchhiking, Want

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.

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• Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

  Simon Hoggart

  Water, Sand, Bushmen

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  Ian Frazier

  Feelings, Secret, Benefits

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Horse, Children, People

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• Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

  Ian Frazier

  Running, Long, Income

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  Molly Ivins

  Wind, Trying, Body

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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• If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

  Christopher Titus

  Running, Dad, Helping

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

  Justin Theroux

  Rome, Laughing, Flying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.

  Carl Gardner

  Song, Teacher, School

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• Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

  Carl Gardner

  People, No Fear, Gangsters

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• Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."

  Margaret Atwood

  Swimming, Pigs, Oxygen

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, Thinking, Abortion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Numbers, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, African American

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.

  Haskell Wexler

  Running, Horse, Jobs

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they're actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they're in a remote location.

  Gail Collins

  People, Empty Places, Half

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

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