David Mamet Quotes
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
Malin Akerman -
If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
Vera Wang -
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
Jackie Speier -
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
Nancy Pelosi -
Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
Naomi Klein -
We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.
Barbara Kopple
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I love to play gigs.
Katey Sagal -
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
Patrick Stewart -
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
Rachel Cusk -
There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
Fay Wray -
There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
Victoria Osteen -
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
Gabriel Byrne
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I was with my king In the heavens When Lucifer fell Into the deepest hell. I carried the banner Before Alexander. I know the names of the stars From the North to the South.
Taliesin -
It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling.
Alexander McCall Smith -
You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron.
Anna Akhmatova -
What can be imagined--need never be lost.
Clive Barker -
I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
Linda M. Godwin -
I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.
Chance The Rapper
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State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
Bruce Rauner -
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.
Jon Meacham -
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Van Wyck Brooks -
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day -
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
Chrystia Freeland -
I love the British.
David Mamet