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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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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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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As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.
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I'm really rubbish with technology; I'm super backward! I think I got a mobile phone last out of all my friends. I really worried about people being able to get hold of me at any time - I really hated that idea.
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It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them.
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I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.
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Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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People only speak to get something.
