#nin

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#among #ask #citizens #earning #fortunate

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#challenges #developing #energy #energy production #foreign

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. ↗

— Rick Danko

#after #booked #dover #eve #first

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! ↗

— Rick Danko

#canada #cleaning #could #erie #ever

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#characters #deal #had #happening #haven

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?" That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?" No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#lightning-thief #percy-jackson #today

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there. ↗

— Keith David

#been #bio #business #course #front

If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically. ↗

— J. Allen Boone

#dog #training #education

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. ↗

— Hope Davis

#cities #country #different #discover #fascinating

I don't know the true meaning of happiness. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#i #know #meaning #meaning of #true