David Mamet Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Every building must have... its own soul.
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I'm 5 foot, 3 inches. Even if I hit you, I'm probably not going to knock you down.
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
