"Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run."

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Source : "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

Ian Frazier

#Running Quotes #Texas Quotes #Long Quotes

“I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1989). “Grandfather Stories”, p.145, Syracuse University Press
“Coitus is random, children are definite.”
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1996). “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”, p.45, Health Research Books
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan
“There is a ferocity to MMA and to the training, but there's such a humanity to it too. It takes so much sacrifice and humility to get into it and to rise through those levels. If you look at the fights as a means to test who you are, every one of these fights is an opportunity to see how far you're willing to go up against yourself - and to find and define your limits.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.”
“We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.”

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