It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.
When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and picking circles and I loved being a part of that.
Here’s the deal on Texas. It’s big. So big, there’s about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.
I’ll never lose my roots. I think I’m too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I’ve just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.
I was born in Texas and I lived there ’till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
Texas is as alien as Mars.
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.
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.
My father ‘Pappy’ who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
I went to a school called Chapman University, which is a wonderful film school. It was a great program, but it was very white, and it was a culture shock for me because I grew up in Houston, Texas, and I went through what they call magnet schools, so my friends were like a Benetton ad.
I’m not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go ‘Yeah, I’m going to work out for five hours – wooh!’ Like, that’s not my thing. I’m from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.
My favorite films are ‘Paris, Texas’ and ‘Repo Man.’
I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.
Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008.
When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
Something about Texas I’m not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.
I don’t hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It’s like home.
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area.
I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.
Texas is not really a red state – it’s just a non-voting state.
You know, west Texas is already beautiful to view from the ground. I can’t even imagine what it must look like as you’re floating down to Earth in a capsule making its return trip from outer space.
I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
I got everything I wanted out of Texas. Obviously, you’d love to win more. You’d love to win a national championship and compete at that level. But as far as relationships and development, I couldn’t be happier.
The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
Truth is, I’ve spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.
The Neanderthals in Texas have one thing that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi don’t have, and that’s called common sense.
For me, it is just the total experience – from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Most of ‘All Hail West Texas’ was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.
To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
I’m originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
I still think ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Psycho’ were just landmarks for those horror films.
In Texas, it’s legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.
Deep down, I’m a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I’ll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He’s that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.
I came to Congress to continue a career of service to my country and to stand up for the values I learned growing up in West Texas.
There is no price tag on an American life – whether it’s in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.
A lot of tribalism we want to stamp out – racial tribalism, for example. But I love that Boston fans are Boston fans, and Texas fans are Texas fans. God help us if we all become the same.
For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, ‘If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.’ We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there – the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
By the time he arrived in Texas – via the red 1947 Studebaker Dad’s parents gave him as a graduation gift – he was ready for the challenge of making his way in the oil business.
