Rick Perry Quotes
Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
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I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
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The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.
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Well, she had had the most wonderful summer; she had got that anyhow tucked away up the sleeve of her memory, and could bring it out and look at it when the days were wet and she felt cold and sick.
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Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
