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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. -- Robert Smith
I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood. -- Beyonce Knowles
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. -- Wilt Chamberlain
Houston, we have a problem. -- Tom Hanks
Houston, we've had a problem. -- Jim Lovell
Houston, we've had a problem here -- Jim Lovell
The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field. -- Franco Harris
Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up. -- Ariana Grande
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. -- Philip Johnson
Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. -- Howard Dean
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it. -- Shelley Duvall
Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros. -- Nolan Ryan
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. -- Ron White
It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit. -- Earl Campbell
I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. -- Jeffrey Hunter
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome. -- Leif Garrett
I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them. -- Jessica Mauboy
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. -- George Foreman
I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back. -- Donald Driver
My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now. -- Shelley Hennig
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting. -- Jim Parsons
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem! -- Wally Schirra
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. -- LaToya London
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission. -- Umberto Guidoni
I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting. -- Gail Collins
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter. -- David Neeleman
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country -- Danny Glover
In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is. -- Simon Hoggart
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. -- Nolan Ryan
After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school. -- Chris Parnell
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. -- Mike Schmidt
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. -- Dan Rather
I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Houston Alexander is for real! -- Joe Rogan
I know I'm no Whitney Houston. -- Agyness Deyn
Houston, we've had a problem here. -- Jim Lovell
There's nothing funny about flying to Houston. -- Albert Brooks
A huge Chinese population here in... Houston. -- Bill Walton
The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston. -- Jerry Coleman
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting. -- Mireille Enos
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening. -- Jerry Coleman
My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard". -- Kevin Hart
I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule. -- Bum Phillips
I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston. -- Concha Buika
Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. -- Bum Phillips
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt. -- Jim Lovell
The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age. -- Don Drysdale
It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush! -- Kathy Griffin
I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston. -- Bob McNair
I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to. -- Mariah Carey
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. -- Stephen King
I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team. -- Joe Morgan
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there. -- J. J. Watt
It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston. -- Carmelo Anthony
I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games. -- James Harden
I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game. -- Adam Dunn
I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer......the way Courtney Love is a singer. -- Kathy Griffin
Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio -- David Foster
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world. -- Valerie June
I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. -- Chris Hadfield
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut. -- Dennis Quaid
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. -- Noah Baumbach
I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that. -- Leah LaBelle
I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that. -- Clive Davis
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. -- Paul Goldberger
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston. -- Billy Joel
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. -- Steve Earle
I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem. -- Antonio Banderas
Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs. -- Mallory Jansen
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days. -- W. P. Kinsella
When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed. -- Brad Lidge
Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day. -- Danielle Bradbery
Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel. -- Heather Headley
Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet there. -- Joe Rogan
Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer. -- Melanie Fiona
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I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera. -- Megan Hilty
If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there. -- Joe Rogan
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Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous. -- Lance Berkman
The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston. -- Wyclef Jean
In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest. -- Donald Trump
I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park. -- Jim Crace
I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these haters... Rest in peace to Whitney Houston -- Kanye West
I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice. -- Justin Cronin
People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence. -- Leona Lewis
If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough. -- Mark Jackson
I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated. -- Bobby Lee
Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas. -- Gib Lewis
There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation. -- Cleve Jones
New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food. -- Jeremy Lin
Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas." -- Gib Lewis
The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you. -- Oprah Winfrey
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels. -- Justin Cronin
One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE. -- Joe Rogan
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Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one. -- Tina Fey
I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well. -- Lance Berkman
The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it. -- Jay Leno
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court. -- Alex Berenson
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In Cincy, we're told how much Gatorade we could take home. In Houston, we get what we request. You get soap and deodorant at your request. You don't have a roommate on road trips. -- Johnathan Joseph
I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me. -- Rebecca Ferguson
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military. -- Steve Earle
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team. -- Earl Campbell
There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do. -- Earl Campbell
This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture. -- Richard Kinder
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist. -- Brandy Norwood
Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom! -- Jay Leno
If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore. -- Rand Paul
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it. -- Natalie MacMaster
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it. -- Natalie MacMaster
One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. -- Ted Danson
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance. -- Aberjhani
The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role. -- Jim Parsons
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. -- Danny Glover

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