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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Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.
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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
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I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
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I realized that if I were a 23-year-old girl getting married, and I wasn't struggling with it, that would likely mean that something was either massively wrong with me or that my brain is made up of delicately wrapped almonds that serve perfectly as party favors.
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High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.
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Be the hunter, not the hunted.
