Rick Perry Quotes
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
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All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God
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I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
