#texas

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#crazy people #down #feel #frightened #go

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#kid #small-town #texas

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#design #how #intelligent #legislature #look

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#i #just #number #other #property

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#also #better #both #called #did

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#covering #i #man #newspaper #politics

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#alone #i #last #last year #our

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#behind #close #education #emphasized #expected

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#base #born #corpus #dad #determined