Mitch Daniels Quotes

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Mitch Daniels

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• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
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• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Respect

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Father
  • Running

• If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Live
  • She
  • Help

• The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • House
  • Sunset

• Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Another
  • Handicaps

• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • Mistakes
  • Soviet Union

• Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Growth

• I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Childhood
  • Journey

• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Government
  • Growth
  • Contribution