Austin Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

  Amber Heard

  Grew Up, Grew, Upbringing

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• (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

  Leonel Manzano

  Running, Home, Athlete

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• If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Humility, Answers, Way

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• D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

  Sarah Dessen

  Philadelphia, Baltimore

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• She chews her lip, staring into my eyes. "Okay... Why did you kiss me in Austin?" I laugh softly and she frowns. "Sorry. That one's too easy." My gaze flicks to her mouth and back. "I'd wanted to kiss you ever since Quinton suggested playing spin the bottle, and by that night in your room, I'd run out of willpower to fight it.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Sorry, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.328, Tammara Webber

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• How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

  Dave Allen

  Hurt, Guitar, Giving

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• I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".

  Rob Lowe

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

  John Hawkes

  People, Nerd, Roles

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• Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wwe, Champion, Stones

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• Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!?

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Beer, Wwe, Doe

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• I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.

  Robert Plant

  Adventure, Talking, Two

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• Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Helping, Sensible, Incomplete

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• I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

  Jay Duplass

  School, Artist, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Lines, Stones, Stone Cold Steve Austin

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• I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.

  Robert Plant

  Color, People, Charming

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.

  Robert Plant

  Creativity, Ambition, Mean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

  Christopher Cross

  Artist, Nashville, Community

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

  Mark Zupan

  Lucky, Enjoy, Live Music

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• I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Years, Car, Five

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• I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Drunk, Twelve, Lasts

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

  Tim Gunn

  Memorable, Dresses, Looks

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

  Bill Hicks

  Texas, Differences, People

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• If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, San Francisco, Cost

  "Why Rick Perry Is So Wrong About California And New York", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2014.

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