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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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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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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.
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When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
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Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.
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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.
