J. Daniels Quotes

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.

We know we should have won that game. But that doesn't mean we look at it as a revenge game. It means we think we should have won; and now, let's correct it.

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

There is no rank in sacrifice.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

We can get rid of red tape.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.

Nothing can take away our memories or what we know.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.