James Mattis Quotes
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.
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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.
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I think friendships are a lot more valuable than one job. If you're going to let it ruin that, then that's stupid.
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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
