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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Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
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I don't believe in writing people off.
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I think there's not enough made about the chemistry of a team and the ability of everybody to pull on the same end of the rope and worry about what matters, and that's wins.
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If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more.
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We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.
