Chris Cornell Quotes

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

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• Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Boy
  • Blood
  • Texas

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • College
  • Now
  • Texas

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Name
  • Texas
  • Beer

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Unique

• CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Texas
  • Court
  • Exhausted

• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Kid
  • Texas
  • Lived

• And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

  

  Dan Rather
  • She
  • Woman
  • Texas

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Texas
  • Mexican

• In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fighting
  • Liberty
  • Texas

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Three

• Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.

  

  Jan C. Ting
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Texas