David Mamet Quotes
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
Quotes to Explore
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed - for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted.
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I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
