James Mattis Quotes

I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

James Mattis

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• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Me

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Doing
  • Bored
  • Really

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moment

• A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Real
  • Job

• I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

• Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Mind
  • Possibilities
  • Limit

• Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Nice
  • Football
  • Criticism

• I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

  

  James Mattis
  • Life
  • Taken