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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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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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
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People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.
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While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
