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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Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
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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.
