James Mattis Quotes
In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
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In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
