Rick Perry Quotes
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.
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It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.
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All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.
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We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
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I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.
