David Mamet Quotes

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

David Mamet

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• It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Peace
  • Civilization

• I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Going
  • Satisfied
  • Keeps

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • You
  • Down
  • Step

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Meant To Be

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Mean

• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Men
  • Love

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Body
  • Drink

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Home
  • City
  • Violence

• The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • World
  • Country
  • City

• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Believe

• Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Sides

• You are beautiful, no matter what they say.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Beautiful

• I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

  

  David Mamet