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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.
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Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
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Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
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I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
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I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We're not like show promoters where we're like, (sleazy) "Hey, come on over and do a show."
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The economy's always been the engine for our national security.
