James Mattis Quotes
Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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I'm a traditional wife in every sense.
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A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
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We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
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Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
