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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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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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.
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People want you to fail.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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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.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
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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.
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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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.
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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.
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I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
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We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
