Texas Quotes - Page 11

• As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, House, Dollars

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• Maybe I will go to Paris.
  Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never
  Go back to Texas again

  James Crumley

  Paris, Hell, Knows

  James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage

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• Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Roots, Differences, Grass

  "Astroturf Lobbying Organizations: Do Fake Grassroots Need Real Regulation" by Henry Young, "Illinois Business Law Journal", November 2, 2009.

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• I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

  Catherine Crier

  Training, Watches, Three

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• My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

  James Roday

  Father, Mexican, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.

  Larry L. King

  Blow, Wind, Sky

  Larry L. King (1980). “Of outlaws, con men, whores, politicians, and other artists”, Viking Adult

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Atlanta, Doe, East

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

  Anne Grant

  Friendly, Information, County

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

  Pierre Salinger

  Cities, America, Dallas

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• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  Karen Hughes

  Party, Agreement, Trying

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• Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Two, Airports, Community

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• I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.

  Rick Neuheisel

  Play, Know How, Knows

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• When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

  J. Frank Dobie

  America, Example, States

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Football, Looks, Royal

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• Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Technology

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  Ike Turner

  Artist, Different, Alabama

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• I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

  Corin Nemec

  Phones, Games, Guy

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

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• Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

  Michael McCaul

  Fire, Years, Wind

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• At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

  Arthur Fremantle

  War, Yards, Helping

  Arthur Fremantle (2008). “Three Months in the Southern States”, p.75, Applewood Books

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• Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

  Maxcy Gregg

  War, Eye, Attention

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• If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

  Ron White

  Ifs

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• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  H. Beam Piper

  Excess, Killing, Politician

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

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• In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

  William H. Wharton

  Fear, Mexican, Dread

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