James Mattis Quotes
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
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I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
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Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
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When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
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Be the hunter, not the hunted.
