David Mamet Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I hope popchips will be the Vitaminwater of the snack aisle.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
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The problem for most self-starting leaders who do not have a mentor begins when they measure the results and find themselves fully aware of the data and the analytics, but are completely unaware of what to do.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
