James Mattis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
-
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
-
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
-
In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
-
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
-
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
-
I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
-
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
-
What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
-
When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
-
Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
-
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
-
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
-
I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
-
The Empire Never Ended
-
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-
I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
-
I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.
-
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
-
Fight with a happy heart.
