Ted Cruz Quotes
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.
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It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
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I've spent my whole life in real estate, whether it's in our hotels or looking at the competition, and it's my curse to walk into every room and not be drawn to the flaws and have the little imperfections drive me crazy - because they didn't need to happen.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
