Molly Ivins Quotes

The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

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.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word ... A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.

I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

I kind of blew the doors off the myth that all heavy metalheads are Neanderthal and very limited in their ability to take on subject matter of any human depth.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

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 have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.