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 begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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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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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
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When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
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I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
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Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
