Jim Mattis Quotes

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

Jim Mattis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1950

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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

John Burnham Schwartz

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I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it.

Jeremy Abbott

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The tax code is weighted toward the ultra-wealthy and ultra-wealthy corporations and has created an offshore aristocracy of people who can afford to hire an army of accountants and lawyers. This shifts the tax burden to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others.

Jeff Fortenberry

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I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

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I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

Michelle MacLaren

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Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

Dennis Cardoza

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I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

Deborah Eisenberg

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Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

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I've shouted this from the rooftops, and I'll say it again: There's not another man on this Earth who is my size who can do what I do.

Braun Strowman

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You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Bruno Mars

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I have nothing but love for my time I spent in Denver, and appreciation, and gratitude.

Brock Osweiler

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I met Lalit Modi in London once. He had apprehensions regarding coming back to India, as his security was withdrawn. He was not worried about cases filed against him.

Sharad Pawar

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