James Mattis Quotes
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
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If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
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For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
