James Mattis Quotes
While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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I know the hardships that my compatriots working abroad are facing.
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Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a new culture, and it becomes something that people just - a lot of times they'll say, "I couldn't live without it. I just have to be there."
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This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
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While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
