David Mamet Quotes

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Experience
  • Compassion

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Football
  • Chance
  • Tennis

• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Real
  • Happy
  • Myself

• We're not looking at banning all weapons.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Looking
  • Weapons
  • Banning

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Better
  • Boring
  • Predict

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• ...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Age
  • Poetry

• How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • World
  • Art
  • History

• There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Hate

• I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Architecture

• Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Good
  • Different
  • Weird

• I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

  

  David Mamet
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