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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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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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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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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First-round matches are always tough.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.
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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.
