James Mattis Quotes
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
Becky G -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac -
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.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
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.
Karen DeCrow -
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit -
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.
Daniel Barenboim
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage -
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
Sam Robards -
If you're offended, it's your problem.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Garrett Clayton -
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
Barry Jenkins
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
Dan Farmer -
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.
M. Stanton Evans -
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
Jackie DeShannon -
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
Samantha Power -
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith -
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Karl Marx
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I can make it clearer; I can't make it simpler.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
John Locke Nazareth -
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Billy Wilder -
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
C. S. Lewis -
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
James Mattis