Austin Quotes

• Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your @$$!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wrestling, Wwe, Wwf

  FaceBook post by Stone Cold Steve Austin from Feb 12, 2016

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• I always love to come to Austin.

  R. Lee Ermey

  "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel" set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

  Jay Roach

  Littles, Surprise, Caught

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

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• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  Uma Thurman

  Timing, Comic, Shows

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• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  Verne Troyer

  Mean, Able, Beats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Alan Vega

  Country, Emo, Texas

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  Verne Troyer

  Opportunity, Careers, One Day At A Time

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

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• In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

  Michael McCaul

  Writing, Government, Independence

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• People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People

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• Sentences are not as such either true or false.

  J. L. Austin

  Fake People, True Or False, Sentences

  "Sense and Sensibilia" by J. L. Austin, (p. 111), 1962.

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• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

  J. L. Austin

  Character, Heirs, Ill

  "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Latin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  J. L. Austin

  Acting, Purpose, Done

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.

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• In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

  John Cale

  New York, Cities, Social

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• Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

  Mike Myers

  Ties, Car, Sound

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• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

  Al Yankovic

  Artist, Kind, Newspapers

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

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• I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

  Keith Richards

  Rooms

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• We went to see Lenny Kravitz last summer in Austin and he was awesome. His show was just awesome. I mean, like, when you see some of these great bands, you sit there and think, man, if only we were that tight, you know?

  Isaac Hanson

  Summer, Mean, Men

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• I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.

  Jay Roach

  Taken, Dvds, Design

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

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• When I initially met with Robert I was just so excited to meet the guy. I was able to go to Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas and just hanging out was fantastic. Working on this took up all of my weekends while I was shooting Community. It was crazy, but again, no regrets.

  Joel McHale

  Regret, Crazy, Weekend

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

  Jane Urquhart

  Drunk, Tragedy, Would Be

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• Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

  Corey Smith

  People, Musician, Athens

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• Jenna Bush was cited for underage drinking in Austin Friday. Her dad warned her that too much partying at school could cost her a good career. At $400,000, he's making the lowest salary of any of his Yale classmates.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, Dad, Party

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• Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Fun, Real

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