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At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - Attributed to John H. "Doc" Holliday
All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.
I'm basically a country person.
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'
First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.
We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night,' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.
To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.
The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.
I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.
I'm from Texas, we fry everything.
One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.
I'm a Southern girl.
I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
Texas is as odd as it is vast.
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
I'm basically a homegrown American.
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold ... Surely Texas is such a place ...
Contrary to popular belief, Texas is not all tumbleweeds, cacti, and horses. I haven't seen a desert yet, and the people in Houston mostly look the same as people from back home, but with the occasional set of cowboy boots.
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.
If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.
Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family ...
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.
At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.
I'm a country boy.
I'm really just a country boy.
I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big
Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.
Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
I'm a real big country boy.
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
I'm country through and through.
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.
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans
Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
The female asked him, "Have you ever been bait? Well, besides jailbait. Rowr." "I can't say that I have, ma'am." Texan accent?
I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.
I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world
I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
I'm from the Midwest.
Texas people are very open, because it's open.
I'm a Midwesterner.
I was born and raised in southern Utah.
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.
I am a country boy at heart.
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
Texas is undeniable ... We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest.
I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.
I'm from Texas. You would think my biggest draw would be in that state. But my biggest draw is Pennsylvania.
I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.
Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!
I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks ... MACHINE-GUN BACON.
I'm a southern gentleman.
I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.
I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
British. My mother
I'm an all-American girl.
I'm just a simple country girl.
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
I love Texas, I can't wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state.
That was fine with Bermont. As a Canadian he'd always had the sneaking suspicion that Americans were crazy in more than just the good ways, and Texans were all that and a side of loco in his experience.
I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.
Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.
I love working in Texas anywhere.
She had shaved above the knee, packed her suitcase with her skimpiest lingerie, and the instructions on the Sexy Weekend Fun Box said, "Just Add Texan." What she had not expected was Hunter putting her on a Tex-free diet.
Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence ... and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.