Rick Perry Quotes

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

Rick Perry

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• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

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• Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

  

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• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

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• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

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• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

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• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

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• History will treat me right.

  

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• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

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• In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

  

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• Carbs are devastating for the brain.

  

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• I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

  

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• I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • Design
  • Intelligent