David Mamet Quotes

I don't really have a social life.

David Mamet

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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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Europe
  • Refugees

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Always

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Moving
  • Journey

• I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

  

  Buddy Guy
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Reality

• I went to Starbucks and there was, like, no-one, no-one asked me for my autograph, no-one did anything, so I was like 'woah, this is really cool, this is really strange'.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Cool

• I don't really have a social life.

  

  David Mamet
  • Life