Mitch Daniels Quotes
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?
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Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
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I've come to recognize that social purpose must be embedded into the core DNA of a company. The questions 'Why do we exist as a company?' and 'How do we make a difference?' need to have the same answer.
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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
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This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself.
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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
