Rick Perry Quotes
The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.
Quotes to Explore
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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There's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ..Saying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of people.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.
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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
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The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.
