Rick Perry Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
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I want to die on my own terms.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
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We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.
