James Mattis Quotes
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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.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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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.'
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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.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.
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Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
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I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to seeI won't be much when you've got through with meWell I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty paleLooks like I've got a tiger by the tail.
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There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
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If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.
