Rick Perry Quotes
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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Where there is love there is life.
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We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
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You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
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I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
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I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That's why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren't real.
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
