Texas Quotes - Page 31

• I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

  Stark Sands

  Kids, Gun, Grew Up

  "Stark Sands Cops to It". Interview with Jenny An, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 12, 2012.

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• So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

  Joseph Bologna

  Sleep, Play, Ems

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• We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas

  Red Skelton

  Inspiration, Sleep, California

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• Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Purpose, Alamo

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• I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

  Sandy Duncan

  People, Grew Up, Grew

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• I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

  Berkeley Breathed

  News, Photographer, Texan

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his heart. Twice as big as the state of Texas. Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without him… Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. Rest in peace brother Dime.

  Vinnie Paul

  Brother, Rest In Peace, Heart

  "Damageplan Drummer Issues Statement". www.nme.com. December 11, 2004.

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• When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

  David Atwood

  Children, Waiting, Answers

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• Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

  Butch Hancock

  Sex, Awful, Taught

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• The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

  Jean-Claude Trichet

  Government, United States, Ministers

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• The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

  Audie Murphy

  Children, Mean, America

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• Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

  Bum Phillips

  Team, Cowboy, America

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• Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

  Dan Jenkins

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  Calamity Jane

  Home, Quiet, Home Life

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

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• The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Cowboy

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• I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Government, Laboratory

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• In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.' When asked what he based that on, Trump said, 'I heard ME say it just now. So it's gotta be true.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Speech, Clinton

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Evil

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• Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

  Langston Hughes

  Jesus, Self, Mad

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.10, Hill and Wang

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• In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

  Ted Cruz

  Gun, Machines, Littles

  FaceBook post by Ted Cruz from Aug 03, 2015

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• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

  Mean, Framed, Slave

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

  David Letterman

  Running, Father, President

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• Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

  Molly Ivins

  Color, Different, Alive

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.4, Vintage

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Worry, President

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• After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.' While Ted Cruz continues to be the Taylor Swift of not getting over Obamacare.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Obamacare, Yesterday, Support

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