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Arizona should be to the Sharing Economy what Texas is to Oil and what Silicon Valley used to be to the tech industry.
Doug Ducey
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Sharing
Arizona
Economy
Industry
Texas
Oil
Should
Used
Tech
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
Douglas Brinkley
Plants
Favor
Variety
Tend
Springs
Texas
Austin
Native
Residents
Palm
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
Douglas Brinkley
Ranch
Had
He
Idea
Since
Territory
Cattle
Arrived
Been
Texas
Roosevelt
Theodore
Theodore Roosevelt
Dakota
With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
Douglas Brinkley
Men
Three
First
Other
Top-Notch
Lieutenant
More
Colonel
Through
Stuck
Until
Cheering
Were
Texas
Than
Regiment
Newspapers
Roosevelt
Riders
Rough
Chose
Four
Teddy
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.
Douglas Brinkley
Hero
Honor
Summer
Battles
Folk
Brought
Winning
Throughout
Cuba
Became
Overnight
Texas
San
San Antonio
Roosevelt
Riders
Rough
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie
Politics
National
Think
Saw
Impact
Could
He
Understood
George
George W
Texas
George W. Bush
National Politics
Bush
Karl
Karl Rove
Early
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
Ed Gillespie
College
Cornerstone
Texas
Republicans
Electoral
Electoral College
Now
I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
Ed Weeks
Love
Food
You
People
Old
Long
Smell
Summer
States
Kid
Would
Take
Over
Fell
Always
Nashville
Been
Texas
Get
Holidays
Europe
Even
Necessarily
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy
War
Good
Leadership
Made
Fraud
Imminent
Threat
Take
Announced
Texas
Up
Going
Politically
Place
Republican
January
Whole
Thing
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon
Work
School
Degree
Military
Biology
Earned
Back
Back To School
Out
Some
Got
Texas
Did
Graduate
Then
University
I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!
Elizabeth Warren
Teacher
School
Opportunity
College
Daughter
Country
Way
States
Married
See
Cost
School Teacher
Became
Got
Truly
Texas
Semester
America
Senator
Graduated
Public
Janitor
Who
Public School
United
Professor
United States
I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.
Erin Cummings
Woman
Girl
Goddess
Baby
All-American
Global
Am
Texas
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
Erin Wasson
State
Jock
Total
Clinics
Texas
Up
Heat
Team
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Basketball
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
Education
Teacher
Mom
Needs
Army
Girl
Sister
Wealthy
Born
Determined
Were
Texas
Succeed
Worked
Youngest
Special
Special Education
Who
Special Needs
Dad
Including
Base
Oldest
Four
Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.
Eva Longoria
Speak
College
Heritage
Though
Learned
Tied
Am
South
Texas
Up
Miami
Very
Close
Where
Different
Spanish
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
Necessity
Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.
Evan Osnos
Day
You
Every Day
People
Immigration
Sense
Every
See
About
Something
More
New
Like
Talking
Course
New Hampshire
Hampshire
Texas
Where
Explicit
Much
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
F. Murray Abraham
Military
See
Brothers
More
Texas
Any
Buried
Cemetery
Want
Two
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk
Color
Beat
Wrong
Because
Got
Were
Texas
Up
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
Floyd Abrams
Exhausted
Trial
Highest
Court
Courts
Texas
Intermediate
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
Floyd Abrams
Think
Fact
New
Texas
Very
York
New York
Fought
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Floyd Abrams
Good
Battle
Law
Think
Dan
Dan Rather
State
About
Ongoing
Rather
Winning
Mary
Had
Clear
Principle
Issue
Were
Texas
Very
Where
Us
Good Chance
Chance
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker
Dreams
Heart
Kid
East
Possible
Touch
Himself
His
South
Texas
La
Happen
Central
Them
Who
Believes
Raised
If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
Forest Whitaker
Teacher
Family
Mother
Father
Side
Way
East
Out
Ten
Reunion
Go
Texas
Preacher
Just
From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
Gabrielle Giffords
Background
Everywhere
Both
Both Parties
Support
Between
New
Checks
Know
Parties
Policies
New Hampshire
Continue
Hampshire
Texas
In-Between
Popular
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Made
Country
Half
Own
Completed
States
Draw
Generalization
Know
Territory
Mixed
Encounters
Texas
Up
Place
Mean
Really
United
United States
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
Gail Collins
God
Health
Good
Great
You
People
Job
Country
Rich
Luck
Good Luck
Percentage
Mentally
Great Place
Highest
Terrible
Health Insurance
Without
Insurance
Got
Texas
God Help
Get
Getting
Place
Poor
Workers
Help
Ill
Injured
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