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I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.
You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.
I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart. And both of them were independents, by the way.
I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.
Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way.
I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.
Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street
I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.
This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.
Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.
I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.
I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.
In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.
The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.
People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.
Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.
And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.
I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.
The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime.
I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.
My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.
That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.
This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.
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