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
  • Marriage
  • Beginning

• 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

• I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

  

  Glen Campbell

• Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

  

  Rachael Bermingham
  • Time
  • Money
  • Energy

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Identity

• I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • High
  • Want
  • Myself

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

  

  James Mattis