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Tiffany Madison "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."
Dorothy Malone "The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent."
Johnny Manziel "It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite."
Suzanne Martin, author, 'Awesome Almanac: Texas' "Fort Worth is hailed as the birthplace of the washateria. In 1934, as the story goes, J. E. Cantrell installed four washing machines in an empty building. He rented the washers out by the hour to any housewife who couldn't afford an electric washing machine of her own. Cantrell's idea obviously spread to every city and town in the nation."
Donella Meadows "George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman."
Idina Menzel "The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world."
James Michener "Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class."
James Michener "What you northerners never appreciate... is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks."
James Michener "First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan."
James Michener "Presidio Presidio is the unadorned meeting place of two great nations."
Texas State Motto "Friendship"
Kinky Friedman, author and musician "The notion of the cowboy has always been one of America's most precious gifts to the children of the world.... When Anne Frank's secret annex was revisited after World War II, pictures of American cowboy stars were still fluttering from the walls where she had left them."
June Naylor, author, Off the Beaten Path-Texas "Texas is the number-one bird-watching destination in the United States, and the Rio Grande Valley is the number-one bird-watching area in Texas. Some 465 species of birds, including 34 species found nowhere else in the country have been spotted in Texas. Most can be found in the Rio Grande Valley."
June Naylor, author "The bluebonnet... arrives overnight in spring, thickly coating fields and highway shoulders in a spectacle of deep blue that would have given Renoir a lump in his throat."
Willie Nelson "I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control."
Willie Nelson "No place but Texas would I ever roam. No place but Texas, my home, sweet home."
Willie Nelson "There is no place quite like Abbott. That is where my dreams began, and I go back there to begin dreaming again, like a child."
Willie Nelson "There's a freedom here and an independence that you're born knowing about, and I guess you spend the rest of your life telling everyone else about it. Austin … if you were trying to describe it to someone who's never been there … I don't know, it's indescribable. It's everything imaginable, the people, the weather, the freedom. Those of us who are really touched by it, we don't find it anywhere else. There are other places around that are magic places for me, but Austin is definitely a big one. Plus, the sunsets are the greatest in the world."
Corin Nemec "I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it."
David Nevin, author, 'The Texans ' "There has never been anything quite like Texas."