David Mamet Quotes

You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?

David Mamet

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• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Wife
  • Always
  • Thought

• I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Way
  • Like
  • Fox

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Myself

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Because

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Friends
  • Catholics
  • Roman

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Black
  • Gun
  • Constitution

• The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • Power

• Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book

• We were against oppression, and then we elevated our struggle to demand our rights. We will go against all the dictators, and not only Saleh in Yemen, so we can spread peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Business
  • Nice
  • Curiosity

• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Sad

• One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.

  

  George Osborne
  • Time

• It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Career
  • Relationship
  • Water

• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Painful
  • Exception
  • Glorious

• You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?

  

  David Mamet