Mitch Daniels Quotes
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.
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The scientific understanding of some of these childhood diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.
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Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
