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.'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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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.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.
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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.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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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.
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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.
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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
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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.
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I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
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In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
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Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.
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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.'
