Texas Quotes - Page 16

• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  Wendy Davis

  Jobs, Priorities, Leader

  "Wendy Davis announces she is running for Texas governor" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

  Katie Couric

  Heart, People, Bigs

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• They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

  Lynn Collins

  Drama

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

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• My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

  Lynn Collins

  Religious, New York, Southern

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

  Wendy Davis

  Believe, Long, Quid Pro Quo

  "Wendy Davis Announces She's Running For Texas Governor" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.marieclaire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

  David Dewhurst

  Jobs, Economy, Ifs

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• I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Player, Guy, Lucky

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Oklahoma, House, Mexico

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Office, Energy Use

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• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  Sam Donaldson

  Night, Cities, Exit

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• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  Wendy Davis

  Lying, Air, Environmental Quality

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• I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

  Krista Allen

  Teacher, People, Missing

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• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  Krista Allen

  Vegas, California, Machines

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• I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Trying, Next, Impossible

  "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Political

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• They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Iraq, President

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• I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Together, Twenties

  "Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn on Sex, Violence & More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 17, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!

  Jay Leno

  Home, Holiday, Cutting

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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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