Mitch Daniels Quotes

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

Mitch Daniels

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• Economy
• Damaged
• Rebuild

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Does
  • Arithmetic

• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Down
  • Sadness
  • Slow

• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Amazing

• The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • World
  • Care
  • Story

• I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Argue
  • Subjective

• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Fight
  • Ego
  • Losing

• President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Ignorance

• In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

  

  Brian Wildsmith
  • Work
  • Children
  • Done

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

  

  Frank Hague
  • Time
  • Real
  • American

• I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

  

  Marc Anthony
  • American
  • English
  • Spanish

• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • American
  • Economy
  • Damaged