James Mattis Quotes
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
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Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
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For years, I have been a strong supporter of clean, safe nuclear energy as an important part of our energy mix.
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Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
