Texas Quotes - Page 24

• I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Trying, Mountain

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more like 'This is how it's done here. It turned her off - not specific people, but the whole system turned her off. And she wanted to do something, I think, that she could play for her friends in Texas and they would say, Okay, well you're still Miranda.

  Frank Liddell

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.

  Laura Bush

  Opportunity, Race, Political

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• European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

  John Bruton

  Japan, Europe, Together

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• What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

  Nikki Giovanni

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

  Jack White

  Zero, Rain, Mean

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• A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Hurt, Sex, Thinking

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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.

  Dan Savage

  Natural

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.190, Penguin

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• I worked around cattle all my life and I guess I learned all there is to know about it, and I think I can sum it all up in one thing: You can't drink coffee on a running horse.

  Sam Brenner

  Running, Horse, Coffee

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Oregon

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

  Adam Schiff

  Uc Berkeley, Ucla, Minorities

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• Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you in the United States House of Representatives. Together, we will continue fighting to protect our Texas conservative values and the preservation of the America we know and love for future generations to come.

  Mike Conaway

  Fighting, Opportunity, America

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• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

  Robert Caro

  Country, Creating, Years

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• I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver’s licenses would ensure they pass a driver’s test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.

  Dan Patrick

  Believe, Requirements, Tests

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• But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Trying, Citizens, My Time

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• We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

  R. Bowen Loftin

  Commitment, Honor, Bigs

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• I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Together, Twenties

  "Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn on Sex, Violence & More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 17, 2013.

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Friendly

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• That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

  Rick Riordan

  Snow, Happens

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• Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

  Conan O'Brien

  College, Gun, Giving

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• The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.

  Mike Sexton

  Games, Names, Ems

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• It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

  Aaron Spelling

  Cute, Kissing, Turtles

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• Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.

  Bill McKibben

  Russia, Years, Ice

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• Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hate

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