Jim Mattis Quotes

There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

Jim Mattis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

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Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you.

Jeremy Sisto

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I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

Matthew Davis

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I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

Mia Wasikowska

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Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career.

Amy Chozick

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The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

Stephen Kinzer

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I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

Tom Brokaw

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I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Bemelmans

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Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Juan Cole

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With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

William Golding

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I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Peter Bart

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