David Mamet Quotes
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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My childhood was appalling.
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A photograph can express silence.
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How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
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By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
