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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When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage.
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We have a new team ready to go in to City Hall. Where there have been mistakes we will rectify them. Where there are achievements we will build on them.
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Obviously, you get to do a lot of great things and cool opportunities at the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, we all want to be here as a player. That's the goal, and that's why I work so dang hard.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
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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.
