David Mamet Quotes
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.David Mamet
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
Sam Kean -
I am not honest.
Larry David -
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
Vance Joy -
I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
Irvine Welsh -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz -
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
Mal Peet -
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings -
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
Ian McKeever -
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
Lance Gross -
I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams -
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
Ted Nugent -
I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
Zac Efron -
Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
Carl Hagelin -
Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
Alfred P. Sloan -
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
Larry Dixon -
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet