Texas Quotes - Page 28

• When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

  Jenny Lawson

  Parent, Goes On, Circus

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• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  Calamity Jane

  August, Married, Clinton

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  John Hoeven

  Alaska, Oklahoma, Oil

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• In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.

  Josh Henderson

  Girl, The End Of The Day, Routine

  "Hot Topic: Josh Henderson" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see.

  Toby Keith

  Son, Boys, Men

  "Song: "Beer for My Horses" ("Unleashed")". www.foxnews.com. 2002.

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• When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

  Waylon Jennings

  Kings, Musical, Bob

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• I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Father, Cowboy, Two

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

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• I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Friday, Football, School

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• I grew up in Plano, Texas.

  Hunter Parrish

  Grew Up, Grew

  Interview with Emily Poenisch, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

  Jim Lehrer

  Men, Covering, Newspapers

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• We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

  Jay Sekulow

  Justice, Trying, Records

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• I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, University, Coaches

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• Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

  Steven Hall

  Chaos

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• I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Kids, Norway

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• If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

  John Podesta

  People, House, Political

  "My Interview with CAP President John Podesta". Interview with Jonathan Singer, www.blueoregon.com. March 04, 2005.

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• I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

  Jesse Plemons

  Football, Crazy, School

  "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.

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• I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

  Hunter Parrish

  Thinking, Belts, Agree

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Land, Giving

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• I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

  Josh Henderson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Reality

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• All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

  George Strait

  Relationship, Hats, Tennessee

  Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas, Album: Ocean Front Property

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• One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

  Bob Dylan

  Medicine, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

  Orson Welles

  Marijuana, Light, Years

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• But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

  Rick Perry

  Blessing, Air, Flying

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, Iraq

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

  Janis Joplin

  People, Arthur, Treats

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