David Mamet Quotes

Cop couldn't find his fucking couch, the living room.

David Mamet

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• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • Know
  • Queen

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Design

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Family
  • Well
  • Culinary

• If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Knowledge
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I'd do anything to help veterans.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Help
  • Anything
  • Veterans

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Wish
  • Priorities

• Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Important
  • Love

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Body

• The wise are above books.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Wise
  • Books
  • Above

• For everything that you do, there are people who appreciate your work and then there are those who don't. I think very few people have the guts to be sure of what they are doing, believe in it, and then go ahead and do it, irrespective of what people think.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• For you, a thousand times over.

  

  Khaled Hosseini

• 'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Experience
  • Question

• A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Rest

• I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Girl

• My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Author

• I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

  

  Jayson Williams
  • Career
  • Athlete

• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • End
  • Honest

• Cop couldn't find his fucking couch, the living room.

  

  David Mamet