James Mattis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
-
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
-
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
-
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.
-
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
-
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
-
You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
-
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.
-
Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
-
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.
-
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
-
I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
-
We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.
-
Timing has a lot to with art.
-
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
-
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
-
There are some people who don't realize what it is they are doing to others until they are paid back in their own coin. But those are not the worst. The worst are those whose unkindness is calculated.
-
Be the hunter, not the hunted.
