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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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
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America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.
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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
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My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
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The economy's always been the engine for our national security.
