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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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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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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Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.
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America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.
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Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?
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Converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.
