Dallas Quotes

• Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

  JR

  Real, Giving, Real Power

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• Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

  Lisa Loeb

  Jobs, Growing Up, Children

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  Laura Miller

  Fighting, Cities, Worth Fighting For

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• I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

  Reba McEntire

  Kids, Wife, Widows

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Hard Work, Years

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• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  Laura Miller

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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• A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

  Clive James

  Thinking, Classic, Absurd

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

  Larry Hagman

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

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• I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

  Mary Crosby

  Careers, Missing, Wonderful

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• We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

  Steve Kanaly

  Hippie, Chinese, Tables

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• I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

  Ted Shackelford

  Three, Four, Too Much

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• I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Struggle, Sleep

  "9 Business Lessons That Will Eliminate Your Doubts Forever" by Gordon Tredgold, www.inc.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

  Charles Haley

  Cowboy, Player, Trying

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• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Running, Men, Community

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• Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!

  JR

  Eye, Forgiving, Enemy

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• The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!

  JR

  People, World, Body

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• Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

  JR

  Revenge, Feelings, World

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• Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

  JR

  Business, Anything Worth Having, Way

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• Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

  Eartha Kitt

  Jail, Shots

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• Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

  Charley Pride

  School, Golf, Cowboy

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• No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

  T Bone Burnett

  Mom, Home, Way

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• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  Laura Miller

  Cities, City Walls, Done

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• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  Barry Watson

  Cowboy, Hair, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

  Norma McCorvey

  Pregnancy, Office, Development

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