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In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his 'Gen. George Patton.' Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.

Peter Bergen

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BeautyAloneWalkSoulSometimes

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Joel Hodgson

ScienceGiftEndMysteryRobotsWay

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Carroll Lynch

YourselfPeopleYouWonderfulMost

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Ronnie Milsap

ThoughtAmericanHappenOutMark

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Mike Myers

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I used to sit for hours and copy every lick on those early AC/DC and Kiss records. From there, I went on to Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After a while, you kind of develop your own style.

Mike McCready

StyleKissYouEarlyCopyKind

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault

LovePowerBehaviorDesireEveryday

If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.

Mirai Nagasu

MindYouPossibleAnythingYourPut

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Craig Charles

DieYouMove OnStagnantEvolve

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

Brian Cox

TimeSpiritualPresentDoingEarly

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Psy

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Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.

Sergio Ramos

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