David Mamet Quotes

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

David Mamet

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• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Amazing
  • Cold
  • Bond

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Become
  • Accomplish

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Performance
  • Expectations

• Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

  

  Daniel Adair Nickelback
  • Great
  • Me
  • Position

• We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Driving

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Team

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Thought

• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Real
  • Community
  • Struggle

• Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips a sweet surpriseHer hands are never cold She's got Bette Davis eyes

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Brave
  • Coward

• My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.

  

  Jennifer Armentrout
  • Experience
  • Celebrity
  • Crush

• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • People

• If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.'

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Good
  • Worry

• Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

  

  Reed Morano
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Perspective

• I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

  

  David Mamet