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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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 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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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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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.
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Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?
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The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party. Each group believed that this new brutal, rabid, monolithic fighting gang, on achieving power, would promote, as had been promised, its enlightened interests.
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The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.
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U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.
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Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.
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Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.