Texas Quotes - Page 26

• The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

  John Cornyn

  Home, Domestic Violence, Firsts

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• Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

  Julian Castro

  Believe, Opportunity, People

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

  Roger Clemens

  Tradition, University, University Of Texas

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

  Jenna Dewan

  Running, School, Practice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  Agyness Deyn

  Paris, Silence, Stories

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

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• I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

  David Dewhurst

  Support, Guests, Today

  "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

  Josh Henderson

  Cutting, Men, Two

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license!

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Strong, Long

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• Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

  Arthur Bradford

  School, Stories, Links

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

  Craig McDonald

  Swings, Hands, Judging

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• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

  Alvin Ailey

  Book, Creating, Criticism

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• The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

  David Letterman

  Vacation, Wind, White

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• Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

  Chris Kyle

  Redneck

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Who I Am, Play

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.

  Bill Moyers

  Boys, White, Southern

  "Moyers on Democracy" by Bill Moyers, (p. 99), 2008.

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• My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

  Selena Gomez

  Mom, Fun, Honest

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.

  Doug Sahm

  Soul, Ifs

  "Song: "At the Crossroads" ("Mendocino")". 1969.

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• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Children, Lying

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.

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• Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

  Jay Leno

  Trying, Facts, Scientist

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• We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

  Martin Amis

  Country, Oil, House

  "Palace of the end" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.

  Pauline Kael

  Home, Sunday, Night

  "Mirrors". Review of "Places in the Heart" on October 15, 1984. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 246, 1985.

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• You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, One Day, Mountain

  "A Conversation with President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush". Interview with Mark K. Updegrove, communitytable.parade.com. April 20, 2013.

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

  Dan Rather

  Florida, California, Burritos

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