David Mamet Quotes

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

David Mamet

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• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • True
  • Man
  • Miracle

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• The business of America is business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Business
  • America

• Screaming is hard after a while.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Hard
  • While
  • After

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Positive

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

  

  Becky G
  • Song
  • Know
  • Get

• I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Hate
  • Respect

• There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Political
  • Science
  • Religious

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Passion

• Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Power
  • Strong

• Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Work

• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Help

• Don't worry about me; my moment will come. I'll be ready for it. I will work hard, and whenever it's gonna come, whenever the coaches are gonna trust me, I'm gonna be on court and give 100 percent.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Worry

• You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I want every Grammy.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Every
  • Grammy

• There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  

  David Mamet