Texas Quotes - Page 26

• The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

  David Letterman

  Vacation, Wind, White

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• I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

  David Dewhurst

  Support, Guests, Today

  "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

  Craig McDonald

  Swings, Hands, Judging

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• I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

  Duane Chapman

  Car, Prison, Murder

  "Charges Dropped: Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman Discusses His Legal Ordeal with Mexico". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2007.

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• You know, I got the third most uninsured district in the whole state of Texas, probably number nine in the whole country. As a Blue Dog, I'm also looking at the cost. So, I have got a very unique district.

  Henry Cuellar

  Country, Dog, Unique

  "Interview with Rep. Henry Cuellar". "Anderson Cooper 360°", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

  John Cornyn

  Home, Domestic Violence, Firsts

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• Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

  Julian Castro

  Believe, Opportunity, People

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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• It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

  Ralph Nader

  Littles, Towns, Lawyer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

  Alvin Ailey

  Book, Creating, Criticism

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• The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

  Roger Clemens

  Tradition, University, University Of Texas

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

  Jenna Dewan

  Running, School, Practice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  Agyness Deyn

  Paris, Silence, Stories

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

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

  Dan Rather

  Florida, California, Burritos

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• My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

  Selena Gomez

  Mom, Fun, Honest

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.

  Lewis Black

  Block, Eye, Thinking

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• My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Eight, Nashville, Years

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• Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

  Miranda Lambert

  Strong, Dad, Writing

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• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Children, Lying

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.

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• Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

  Henry Garza

  Children, Insult, States

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• I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Thinking, Nuts

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• My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

  Bella Thorne

  Giving, Directors, Casting

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

  Edna Ferber

  Yesterday, Alive, Today

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• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  Gabe Newell

  Years, Guy, One Day

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

  Jay Leno

  Trying, Facts, Scientist

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