James Mattis Quotes
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
Quotes to Explore
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
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What people say, it shouldn't matter. They're going to hype whoever they're going to hype - some deservedly so. But it shouldn't affect one player's performance or passion for the game.
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Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
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It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
