Texas Quotes - Page 21

• I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Home, Years, Valleys

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• [Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rivers, Water, Looks

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• We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!

  Peter Erskine

  Country, Grateful, School

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• I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.

  Kinky Friedman

  Fighting, People, Way

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• I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

  Kinky Friedman

  Fighting, Shining, Want

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• The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

  Kinky Friedman

  Teacher, Important, Tables

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• There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

  Kinky Friedman

  Faces, Spirit, Chill

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• I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Horse, Art, Thinking

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• You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Needs, Hats

  "Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Feb. 12 Primaries". Hillary Clinton's campaign speech in El Paso, Texas, www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2008.

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• I got to play with some of the best players in the game, from Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore in Cleveland, to here with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels. Obviously, to Seattle with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez, and then to Texas with Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young. It was a great experience. Without being traded I never could have gotten to do any of that.?

  Cliff Lee

  Player, Games, Cleveland

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• At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Football, Player

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• Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

  Josh Beckett

  One Day, Pockets, Records

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• The best of Texas is yet to come.

  Wendy Davis

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• There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

  Christopher Bollen

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

  Herb Boyd

  Oklahoma, California, Community

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• I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

  Chris Cornell

  Play, Dollars, Ems

  "Exclusive: Chris Cornell Talks Writing Music for MACHINE GUN PREACHER, His Career, Soundgarden, Touring, Johnny Cash, Video Games and Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  G.W. Bailey

  Character, Oil, America

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

  Scoot McNairy

  Country, Moving, People

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• I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

  RJ Mitte

  Uncles, Hunting, Fishing

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter White, Jr.)". www.amc.com.

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• It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

  Johnny Manziel

  Running, People, Groups

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• I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

  Johnny Manziel

  Kids, Towns, Small Town

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• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Country, Strong, Hippie

  "Jesse Metcalfe talks a new ‘Dallas’ generation and … methane?" by Geoff Berkshire, uproxx.com. June 13, 2012.

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• With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

  Lucas Till

  Men, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

  JoBeth Williams

  Cities, Connections, Earth

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

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• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Alan Vega

  Country, Emo, Years

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