James Mattis Quotes
In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Accept loss forever.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
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I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
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In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
