David Mamet Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
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I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.
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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
