James Mattis Quotes

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

James Mattis

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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Easier

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Door
  • Working
  • Rules

• 'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Always
  • Film
  • Special

• We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Europe
  • Too

• I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Independence

• People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Think
  • Rest

• When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Want
  • Change
  • Study

• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Wish

• De Soya blinks. 'Suicide is a mortal sin,' he says.On the screen the girl nods seriously. 'Yes,' she says, 'but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • She
  • Girl
  • Christian

• Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • September

• There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Good

• The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Hands
  • Said
  • Rich

• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • People
  • Pride
  • Conversation

• With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Together
  • Songwriting

• If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

  

  James Mattis