Rick Perry Quotes
I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.
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The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.