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.David Mamet
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.
M. Night Shyamalan -
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.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Madison Smartt Bell -
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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
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.
Vikas Swarup -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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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.
Harold Ramis -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson -
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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
J. R. Smith -
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
Felix Dennis
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
Ian MacKaye -
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
Harold Brodkey -
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.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
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.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Garry Marshall -
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.
Tariq Ali
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I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
Kirsten Dunst -
I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.
Bipasha Basu -
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
William Blake -
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.
Elliott Sober -
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.
David Mamet