Cowboy Quotes - Page 8

• If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

  Clint Eastwood

  San Francisco, Careers, Detectives

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that guy or he can play this guy." You're not just "THAT guy," that cowboy guy, that whatever guy. Then you are limiting yourself.

  Scott Eastwood

  Play, People, Guy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

  Edmund White

  Real, Believe, Home

  1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

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• Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

  Lee Iacocca

  Growing Up, Kids, Want

  Lee A. Iacocca (1994). “I Gotta Tell You: Speeches of Lee Iacocca”, p.93, Wayne State University Press

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• A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.

  Emmitt Smith

  Yesterday, Issues, Dallas

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• I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

  Bryan Cranston

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

  "Bryan Cranston Talks ROCK OF AGES, DRIVE, JOHN CARTER, Reveals He’s Writing and Directing HOME AGAIN and Says He Almost Did X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

  John Hodgman

  Men, Elderly, Flying

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

  Tom Johnson

  Dad, Community, Saws

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Suits You, Ties

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• What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

  John Baldessari

  Horse, Fall, Kissing

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• My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

  Austin Butler

  Horse, Growing Up, Texas

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Play, People

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). Sounds like some writers.

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• Hey. Hands off.” ", "“Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” "“Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Hands, Wearing Pink, Hey

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• I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

  Meg Cabot

  Soul, Ghost, Bedroom

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.166, Pan Macmillan

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• Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Graduation, Dream, Princess

  "15 Memorable Celebrity Graduation Speeches" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

  James Herbert

  Book, Kids, Other Worlds

  "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up.

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Boots, Shut Up

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Self, Play

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• I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

  Terrell Owens

  Knows

  "Owens one happy camper" by Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, p. 01C, July 27, 2008.

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• There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.

  Jemele Hill

  Team, Dallas, No Excuses

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• To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

  Deborah Kass

  Artist, Generations, Willing

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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, Men

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• I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

  Dave Brubeck

  Way, Jazz, Involved

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• I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

  Chris Colfer

  Country, Artist, Parent

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