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Emmitt Smith American Football Player
Cowboy

"One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football."

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Barry Watson Actor
Cowboy

"I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different."

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David Lee Roth Musician
Cowboy

"In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing."

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
Cowboy

"If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope."

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
Cowboy

"I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."

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Cowboy

"My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Cowboy

"The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights."

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Jemele Hill Sports Journalist, Commentator
Cowboy

"There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team."

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Emmitt Smith American Football Player
Cowboy

"Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Cowboy

"If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there."

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