Texas Quotes - Page 22

• Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

  Sissy Spacek

  Airplane, Character, House

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• If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Children, Husband, Interesting

  "Sissy Spacek On ‘An Extraordinary Ordinary Life’: Oscar-Winning Star Talks Career, Kids And ‘Carrie’". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often he manages to find new treasures. Here, with the same insight he brought to Black Indians and his other books, the author traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West. He deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

  Herb Boyd

  Book, Oklahoma, Years

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• I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

  Dean Ornish

  Meat, Vegetarian, Eating

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• This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.

  Kinky Friedman

  Spiritual, Powerful, Confused

  "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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• The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

  Kinky Friedman

  Educational, People, Growth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.

  Kinky Friedman

  Party

  "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 14, 2005.

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• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  John Travolta

  College, Two, Clothes

  Source: movies.about.com

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• You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

  Davy Crockett

  Cowboy

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• At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

  James R. Thompson

  Practice, Skills, Want

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• I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

  Tom Hicks

  Country, Thinking, Chance

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• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Curiosity, Odessa, Tiny

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• Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Boys, Blood, Denim

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.

  Selena

  Racism, United States, World

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• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  Candace Kita

  Jobs, Cds, Firsts

  Interview with Justin Kaehler, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Boys, Caffeine, Delicate

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• However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.

  Sean Hannity

  Mean, Heart, Men

  "Sean Hannity: 'Our government is simply out of control'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2014.

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• I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

  George Ryan

  Thinking, Media, People

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• As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Firsts, Taught

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• I want us to know our world.   If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Crazy, Our World, Mountain

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Oklahoma, House, Mexico

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• I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Player, Guy, Lucky

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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• If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

  David Dewhurst

  Jobs, Economy, Ifs

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

  Lynn Collins

  Religious, New York, Southern

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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