Texas Quotes - Page 14

• A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, People, Tea

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• Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.

  Harold O. J. Brown

  Christian, Religious, New York

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• I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Wisdom, Work

  "Cruz slams fellow GOP senators" by Kevin Robillard, www.politico.com. October 20, 2013.

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• Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

  Conan O'Brien

  America, Race, Guy

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• Texas Governor Rick Perry now says his wife has been encouraging him to run for President. Remember first he told us God told him to run; now his wife is telling him to run. Of course, the big difference; if you ignore what God says you don't have to hear about it until the afterlife. That's the only difference.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Differences, Afterlife

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• I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

  Shane Carruth

  People, Urban

  "Steven Soderbergh & Shane Carruth Talk 'Upstream Color,' Its Lack Of Cats & Suspicious Marketing In China". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

  Shane Carruth

  School, Math, Degrees

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• Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

  Molly Ivins

  Reality, Thinking, Might

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.148, Vintage

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• Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

  Herb Kelleher

  Nuts, People, Trying

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Law, Justice

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• Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.

  Tom DeLay

  Girl, Daughter, Kids

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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell.

  Ed Weeks

  Summer, Holiday, Kids

  "The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks Reveals All About Women and Acting and Why He Won't Drive a BMW". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. November 19, 2013.

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• President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

  Jay Leno

  Latin, Mean, America

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Atlanta, Years

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• Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?

  David Letterman

  Team, Fire, Guy

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• As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

  Tig Notaro

  Zero, School, Guitar

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

  Eva Longoria

  Girl, Eye, Makeup

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Pakistan, Able

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a bag of Fritos, they were Texas grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of summer, when we used to fire up the barbeque and throw down some Fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on. Better flip that Frito, dad, you know how I like it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Summer, Dad

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• I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

  Kinky Friedman

  Couple, Kids, Gay

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. October 10.

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• Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.

  John Paul Stevens

  Party, Political, Twists

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• At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border. [I] would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, California, People

  "Bush Says He Misunderstood Illegal-Immigration Question / He didn't mean states should pay all costs" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 9, 1999.

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• Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

  Robin Wright

  Brother, Memories, Mosquitoes

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