David Mamet Quotes
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.
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And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
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Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
