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Mitch Daniels Quotes

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Mitch Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1949

Topics

Experience Pain Government Suffering

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

John Burnside

Year Place New Possessions Years

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

John Lydon

Positive Society Negative You Boring

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Tony Bennett

Great Moment Performance Reality You

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Tomas Transtromer

Life Eyes My Life Anxiety Dark Way

Steakhouses serve these big steaks. The first piece is hot, and the last piece is cold. The way I like to eat is to try three or four cuts of meat. People should actually be eating less meat, and the meat they eat should be special.

Jose Andres

People Eating Cold Three Way Try

I've never been very flashy or high-profile.

Jon Oringer

Never Been Very Flashy High-Profile

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Denzel Washington

Learn You Mad Enemy Know Him

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

Claudio Hummes

Corruption Violence Price Land Seize

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Brian Eno

Best People Comfort Zone Surprise

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Work New York You New Know Run

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

Susanna Kearsley

Myself Me Blame Speech Down Out

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

Peter Garrett

Change Deep Look Climate Change Done