Rick Perry Quotes

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

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• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Jesus
  • Genius
  • Poet

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Revolution
  • Independence
  • Peaceful

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Deep

• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • First
  • Year
  • Open

• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Path
  • Walking
  • Tree

• You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Proud
  • Spell

• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Book
  • Unique

• Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Goal

• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Lost

• Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Up
  • Important
  • Living

• I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Different
  • Persons

• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Service

• The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.

  

  Andrea Tantaros
  • Jobs
  • Taxes
  • Spending

• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  

  Sloan Wilson
  • Impossible
  • Kindness
  • Ignored

• Patience mimics the power of infinity. And nobody can win a staring contest with infinity. No matter how long you last, infinity is just getting started.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Win
  • Patience
  • Infinity

• I like when people take chances.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • People
  • Chances

• I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Jobs
  • Creation
  • Focused