James Mattis Quotes
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
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We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.
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Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
