"During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Antonis Samaras

#Government Quotes #Order Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.”

Source : Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com.
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.”
“Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.”
“If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?”
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
“I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as ruining your life. Lifeâ€™s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
“Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss? Never heart could ever miss Comfort, where true meaning is.”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”

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