Rick Perry Quotes

When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

Rick Perry

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• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
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• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
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• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
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• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
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• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
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  • Waste

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
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  • Up

• Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • War
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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • She
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• I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Prepare

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Father
  • Stage

• I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Country
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• Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Today
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• Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Nice
  • Lies

• Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  

  Jonathan Raban
  • Different
  • College
  • Heartbreak

• It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Intellectuals
  • Condescending
  • Demeanour

• I'm happy where I'm at now, but I want to show the world that I'm the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I'm focused and ready.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • World
  • Happy

• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • Economy
  • Nations