Rick Perry Quotes

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

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• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Environment
  • Dance
  • Creative

• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Personality
  • Model
  • Say

• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Book
  • Game

• There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • English
  • Actor
  • Around

• What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

  

  Louise Glück
  • Simple

• I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Writers
  • Soldiers
  • Painters

• You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?

  

  Louise Rennison
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  • Time
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• Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • School
  • Heart
  • Book

• Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
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  • Writing
  • Stories

• I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Up
  • Drama
  • Math

• History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • History

• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Together
  • Wisdom
  • Religious

• God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Romney

• She wondered why she, herself, was always touched by such infinitesimal things. Their very homeliness and lack of worth seemed connecting the past with the present all the more. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • True
  • Wondered
  • Connecting

• Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time

• I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Someone
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  • Flirting

• Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

  

  William James
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  • Worry
  • Add

• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  

  Rick Perry
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