Texas Quotes - Page 32

• A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches to 'Dude, ranches.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, House, Yeah

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• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, New York, Moving

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• When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Country, Rhode Island, Islands

  "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.

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• That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

  Lyle Lovett

  Want

  Song: That's Right, Album: The Road to Ensenada

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• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Army, America

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

  Jensen Ackles

  Gun, Old Fashioned, Western

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• I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

  Kinky Friedman

  Numbers, Tolls, Want

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• Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Crazy, Mean

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• It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together.

  John Thorne

  Lying, Together, Sides

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• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  Patrick Swayze

  Growing Up, Kids, Fighting

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip". Interview with Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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• He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.

  Gena Showalter

  Smart, Cowboy, Jeans

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.115, HQN Books

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• There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Years, Soon Enough

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Mean, Boston

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Thinking, Montana

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Risk, Church

  Christopher Hitchens' closing remarks at Hitchens-Dembski debate at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, www.youtube.com. November 18, 2010.

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• This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  America, Opinion, Entitled

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• We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Important, Haste

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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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.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Years, Flags

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.4, Random House

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• This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

  Janis Joplin

  Games, Play, Long

  Song: Albert Hall Interview

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• Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  Ron White

  Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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• Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, Back Alleys

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• I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Safety, Important

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• There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

  Michael McCaul

  Stars, Sacrifice, Reality

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• You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Baby, Land

  "Fictional character: Paul 'Fred' Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Taught, Good Enough

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