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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas Quotes
A big state, said in a few lines.
This set ranges from a musician noting Dallas as a birthplace despite growing up elsewhere, to a joke about where oil sits versus where policy gets made. It also nods toward the state's long, unsettled history, a subject explored further in our Geography collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
- Nov 07, 2020
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
- Electoral College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his father wasn't even married back then.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
- Nov 07, 2020