David Mamet Quotes
You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
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We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'
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The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
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I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.
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People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
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It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
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You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.
