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.
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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.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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Pilates is great.
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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.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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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.
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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.
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You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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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.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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We are staying focused on the mission and we know we are in good hands with the people on the ground.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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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.
