James Mattis Quotes
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
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When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.
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Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
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I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
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It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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What I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that God is with me. I know that. I know that He's always been with me. It is evident in everything I have endured-and the fact that I made it through with some sanity.
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Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
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Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.
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When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.
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Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.
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I don't have the best track record with quotes.