David Mamet Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
Manolo Blahnik -
At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
Victoria Osteen -
To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
Olivia Colman -
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
Daniel Clowes -
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi -
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
Nancy Pearcey -
I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
Lara Spencer -
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken -
Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
Larry King -
I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
Garry Trudeau
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I just don't stop working.
Kat Graham -
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
Cameron Monaghan -
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Hans Christian Andersen -
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Randy Pausch -
Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.
Warren Farrell
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The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
Meher Baba -
When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
Joan Van Ark -
I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.
Dakota Fanning -
I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.
Beryl Bender Birch -
Cop couldn't find his dick, two hands and a map.
David Mamet