Jim Mattis Quotes

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Jim Mattis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

Jim Jordan

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Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

Johann Lamont

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Systems are overrated; players are underrated.

Jeff Van Gundy

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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

Jeff Bridges

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I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Michael Bay

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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

Amy Poehler

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Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.

Tomi Adeyemi

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Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.

Lobsang Tenzin

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Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

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And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

Christopher Gadsden

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