James Mattis Quotes
There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.
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The British Empire spread Anglo-Saxon culture around the globe–Protestant morals, individualism, the rule of law. Most British colonies rejected those values. Only the ones populated by actual British people–America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand–managed to hold on to them and, as a result, prospered.
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Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
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'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
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The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.
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I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
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Without federal assistance, most elderly Americans would be unable to afford long-term care - and most nursing homes would be unable to keep the doors open.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.
