Rick Perry Quotes

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Rick Perry

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Beginning

• I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Great
  • Business
  • Model

• I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Amazing

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Growth

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Fun
  • Brain
  • Enjoy

• I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Would

• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Life
  • Audience
  • My Life

• I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Goal
  • Serve
  • Aspiration

• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Child

• I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Thought

• I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Responsibility

• The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Government
  • Drama
  • Revolution

• I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Up
  • Question

• As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Vision