James Mattis Quotes
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
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The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought 'This Nation's Saving Grace' when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.
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It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.
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Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
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The economy's always been the engine for our national security.
