Rick Perry Quotes
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.
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It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
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I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.
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"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
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It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.
