Houston Quotes - Page 3

• One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

  Joe Rogan

  Boston, Community, Police

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• The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Years, Names, Voice

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

  Joe Morgan

  Team, Ties, Firsts

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• If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

  Mark Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Mvp

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• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, "I wanted my first son to be named Dallas."

  Dallas Roberts

  Dad, Son, Thinking

  "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.

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• The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In ‘The Client List’ & Life After ‘The Playboy Club’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Comforting, Atmosphere

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• It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.

  Jonathan Horton

  Gymnastics, Journey, College

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.

  Danielle Bradbery

  One Day, Rodeo, Hometown

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• My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

  Kevin Hart

  Whitney, Bodyguard

  "Ice Cube And Kevin Hart Play A Hilarious Game Of 'Never Have I Ever'". Interview with Ellie Bate, www.buzzfeed.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.

  Brandy Norwood

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit.

  Brandy Norwood

  Princess, Play, Careers

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.

  Jessie Ware

  Couple, Voice, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Creative, Taught

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  School, Law, Government

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Stuff, Dallas

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

  Heather Headley

  Song, Inspiration, Hip Hop

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.

  David F. Swensen

  Brother, Yoga, Grateful

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• At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Play, Track, Parks

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s passed an amendment because supposedly he was having a hard time with a church in Houston, with a pastor. And he passed an amendment saying basically if you're a pastor, if you're a religious person, you cannot get up and talk politics.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Hard Times, Church

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Texas, Land

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.

  Cleve Jones

  Class, America, Able

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• I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

  Chamillionaire

  Years, Uprising, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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