James Mattis Quotes

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • You
  • Know
  • Single

• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• Everything is designed to help you sell out.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Help
  • You
  • Everything

• Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Stop
  • Always
  • Look

• I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Hope

• It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Work
  • Always
  • Down

• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Truth
  • Intelligence

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Together
  • Society
  • Support

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Woman
  • Feet
  • Maturity

• I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Acting

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

  

  Wilfrid Noyce
  • Nature
  • Adventure
  • Mountains

• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Wife
  • Afraid
  • Married

• 'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Father
  • Earth

• Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you're not. Don't get me wrong - I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I'm feeling insecure today, I'll move on tomorrow. I'd tell girls to realise it's OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Feeling
  • Person
  • Girls

• I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • People
  • Night
  • Sleep

• It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

  

  James Mattis