"White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis."
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"The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts."
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"I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy."
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"I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow."
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"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."
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"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
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"The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood"
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"I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy."
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"Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime."
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"You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry."
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"I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after."
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"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies."
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"I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive."
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"I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me."
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"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway."
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"Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since."
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""It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys.""
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"Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre."
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"Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy."
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"Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'"
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