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Molly Ivins "How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?"
Calamity Jane "While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885."
Dan Jenkins "Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas."
Peter Jennings "George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam."
Lady Bird Johnson "Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart."
James Jones, early colonist, letter to Republic of Texas President , ÔªøMirabeau B. Lamar, 1839 "We are marching through a beautiful country-its face presents a scene of grandeur and magnificence rarely, if ever witnessed. It is the most beautiful and sublime scene. Rome itself with all its famous hills could not surpass the natural scenery of Waterloo [Austin's original name]."
Anson Jones "The Republic of Texas is no more."
Tommy Lee Jones "I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas."
Tommy Lee Jones "Put me on the ground. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or someplace. I knew I was living in the best place in the world."
Janis Joplin "Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."
Casey Keenum "When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas."
Elmer Kelton "No matter how far we may wander, Texas lingers with us, coloring our perceptions of the world."
Rosemary Kent "Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend--and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture."
Larry L. King "For a few precious moments.....I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky, where all things are again possible and the wind blows free."
Robert T. Kiyosaki "I like Texas and Texans. In Texas, everything is bigger. When Texans win, they win big. And when they lose, it's spectacular. If you really want to learn the attitude of how to handle risk, losing and failure, go to San Antonio and visit the Alamo. The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success against overwhelming odds. They chose to die instead of surrendering. It's an inspiring story worthy of study; nonetheless, it's still a tragic military defeat. They got their butts kicked. A failure if you will. They lost. So how do Texans handle failure? They still shout, "Remember the Alamo!" That's why I like Texans so much. They took a great failure and turned it into a tourist destination that makes them millions. 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."
Naomi Klein "Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill."