Rick Perry Quotes
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
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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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To be is to 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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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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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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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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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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And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.
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The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.
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The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
