David Mamet Quotes
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
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I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.
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I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe.
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The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.
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I don't really have a social life.
