Rick Perry Quotes

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Rick Perry

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• All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Law
  • Building

• No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • War
  • Car

• My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Me
  • Never
  • Face

• I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Happy
  • Marriage
  • Person

• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Saying

• I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Easy
  • Be kind

• I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Batman
  • Spider-Man

• As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • City

• The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Change
  • Celebrity

• The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • Food

• I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Women

• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Paris

• I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to constantly tweet is ridiculous. There are a lot of journalists at the New York Times who tweet. I am not opposed to it. But I don't have enough time. And editors don't have much to say. My world consists of this office, this floor, my apartment and wonderful conversations with our reporters and correspondents - all of them know a lot more about the world than I do.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • World
  • Enough
  • Trouble

• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  

  Michael Steele
  • Political
  • Struggle
  • Republican

• As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • World
  • Work
  • Job

• I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Song

• The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Bank
  • Followers
  • Instagram

• Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

  

  Rick Perry
  • Republican
  • Pages
  • Decades