David Mamet Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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People only speak to get something.
