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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. -- James Dean
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. -- Rick Perry
A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. -- John Steinbeck
I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God... -- Larry Gatlin
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. -- Joseph Heller
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans. -- Bill W. Clayton
I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked. -- Miranda Lambert
Only Texans and Jews understand brisket -- Anthony Bourdain
My mother is French, my father is Texan. -- Mireille Enos
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! -- Robert E. Lee
I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to. -- Burt Reynolds
If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you. -- Kinky Friedman
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. -- George Michael
I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. -- Gary Busey
I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world -- Tommy Tune
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. -- Berkeley Breathed
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. -- George Carlin
I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. -- Jessica Collins
Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans! -- Robert E. Lee
As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan. -- Ken Starr
I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan. -- Henry Thomas
I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big -- Phil Gramm
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans -- John Steinbeck
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism. -- Wendy Davis
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. -- Edmund White
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas. -- John Cornyn
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. -- Abraham Verghese
I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream. -- Rick Perry
If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.' -- George P. Shultz
I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman. -- Christian Kane
Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control. -- Wendy Davis
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. -- Ann Richards
I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it. -- Jerry Jeff Walker
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.' -- Shahzia Sikander
Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners. -- Robert Kiyosaki
My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show. -- Adam Richman
My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. -- Lyle Lovett
Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders. -- Tommy Lee Jones
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas. -- Rick Perry
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan. -- George W. Bush
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood. -- Simone Elkeles
Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be. -- Robert Ruark
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite. -- Henry A. Kissinger
First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan. -- James A. Michener
You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America. -- Joe Bob Briggs
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. -- Selena Gomez
He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it. -- Patricia Cori
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. -- Donald E. Graham
Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones -- Lisa Kleypas
It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American. -- Marc Veasey
This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me. -- George W. Bush
At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted. -- Arthur Fremantle
The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier. -- Joseph Stiglitz
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'. -- J. Frank Dobie
As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't. -- Tiffany Madison
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country. -- Jesse Metcalfe

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