Rick Perry Quotes

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

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• OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Boy
  • Magic
  • See

• Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Winning
  • Seed

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Freedom
  • Property
  • Original

• It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Age

• Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• If nothing else, I have money.

  

  Bjork
  • Money

• When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald

• If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Good

• I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.

  

  Kevin Federline
  • Up
  • Happy

• Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • People
  • Music

• Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

  

  Phil Lord
  • People
  • Age
  • Smart

• I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did 'Spamalot.'

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Mind
  • Lost

• Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

  

  John Singleton
  • World
  • Music
  • America

• People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

  

  Chick Corea
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest-that one can analyze the world...

  

  John D. Barrow
  • World
  • Why
  • Rest

• I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Great
  • Done
  • Happy

• David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Moments
  • Dark
  • Opinion

• Bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Opinion
  • Generations
  • False

• Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

  

  Rick Perry
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