Jim Mattis Quotes

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Jim Mattis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

Jim Piddock

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The older I get, the better I used to be.

John McEnroe

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In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.

Michael Hayden

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Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

Steven Chu

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I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel.

Tony Harrison

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Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

Martin O'Malley

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I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

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I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.

Dhanush

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No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

Chris Cornell

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Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Cheryl Ladd

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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Cillian Murphy

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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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