Mitch Daniels Quotes
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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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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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
