David Mamet Quotes
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.