David Mamet Quotes

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

David Mamet

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Alone

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Person

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Art
  • Weird
  • Kid

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Success
  • Journey

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

  

  Carol Shea-Porter
  • Country
  • Military
  • Honor

• In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • World
  • Important
  • Air

• I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Doubt
  • Listen
  • Instincts

• I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

  

  Petrarch
  • Friends
  • Society
  • Delightful

• It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

  

  David Mamet
  • Society