Rick Perry Quotes

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

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• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Father
  • Survive
  • Twin

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Feelings
  • Everything
  • Hurts

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Love
  • Maybe

• It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

  

  G-Eazy
  • See
  • Inspiring
  • Legends

• I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Son

• I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Energy

• I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Audience

• My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Book

• As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Way
  • Certain

• I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Trying
  • Politics
  • Inconsequential