Texas Quotes - Page 9

• Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

  Rick Perry

  Long, Energy, Proud

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• I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

  Dennis Quaid

  Real, Grandfather, Montana

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• I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

  George Strait

  Australia, Bahamas, Mexico

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• I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

  George Strait

  Hunting, Utah, Mules

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• I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.

  Chamillionaire

  Song, Air, Breaths

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Constitution, Poor

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• There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

  Nat Hentoff

  Hero, Ku Klux Klan, Black

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

  Ricky Williams

  Special, Welcome, Tradition

  "Texas to unveil 8-foot, 1000-pound Ricky Williams statue". www.businessinsider.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: wrvo.org

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• They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Kids, Hands, Water

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.61, Vintage

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Envy, Waiting

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• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

  George Strait

  Bob, Band, Playboy

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• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men, Police, Jake

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• Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

  Dan Rather

  Matter, Tough, Tough Things

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  Dan Rather

  Hate, Eye, Rights

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• I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

  Richard Roeper

  Ems, Form

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kentucky, Kansas, Hawaii

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• News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

  Jessica Savitch

  Weather, Waiting, Events

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

  Jessica Savitch

  Character, Literature, Larger Than Life

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Oklahoma, Oil, Reason

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• I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

  Emmitt Smith

  Morning, August, Weather

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• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Growing Up, Kids

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Brother, People, Littles

  "The Complete Bushisms" by Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

  Dick Cheney

  Real, Differences, President

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• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  Gail Collins

  Presidential, Campaigns, World

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 04, 2012.

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