Texas Quotes - Page 23

• They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

  Lynn Collins

  Drama

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

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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• Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

  Sheryl Crow

  Sorry, Sadness, Car

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• I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  People, Hollywood, Theory

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

  Jessica Biel

  Fans, Firsts, Classic

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• Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

  Billy Bush

  Thinking

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

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• In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

  Minka Kelly

  Musician, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Country, Mean, Encounters

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Office, Energy Use

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• It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

  Joseph Lowery

  Virginia, Florida, Ironic

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.

  Bart Millard

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

  Katie Couric

  Heart, People, Bigs

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• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  Richard Land

  Cat, Grandmother, Aunt

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Political

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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, Knives, Punishment

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

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Trying, Next, Impossible

  "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

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• For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Years, Assistants

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• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  Krista Allen

  Vegas, California, Machines

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• I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

  Krista Allen

  Teacher, People, Missing

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• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  Wendy Davis

  Lying, Air, Environmental Quality

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• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  Sam Donaldson

  Night, Cities, Exit

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• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  Ornette Coleman

  Writing, Hard Times, Player

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

  Brent Musburger

  Baseball, Football, Team

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