David Mamet Quotes
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
Zig Ziglar -
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin -
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Kate Bush -
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
Adam McKay -
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild -
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
J. Paul Getty
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Jack LaLanne -
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
Garth Ennis -
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. Byatt -
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
Sally Field -
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Orson Scott Card
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
E. M. Forster -
Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
Phil Silvers -
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
Mirriam Johnson -
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey -
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
Chance The Rapper
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The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
Martin Bashir -
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
William Glasser -
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb -
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
David Mamet