Rick Perry Quotes
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
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I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .
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Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.
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In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.
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Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
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I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
