David Mamet Quotes

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

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• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Try

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Long
  • Why

• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Fortune

• Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Think

• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Yourself

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

  

  Sallust
  • Angry
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• My next baby will be my new record.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Baby
  • New
  • Will

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.

  

  Charles Schwab

• No woman had ever done this to him: made him burn, tore him open, tried his patience to its very limits. People

  

  Bella Andre
  • Woman
  • Patience
  • Limits

• I hope white brothers and sisters read this book.Tears we cannot stop and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Book
  • Brother

• To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.

  

  Alex Karpovsky

• The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

  

  David Mamet