James Mattis Quotes
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I take my work seriously.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!
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My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
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I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.
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Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
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Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
