David Mamet Quotes
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
David Mamet
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
Carly Fiorina
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
Olivia De Havilland
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
Parker Posey
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
Zach Anner
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The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
Lydia Davis
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We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
Alice Miller
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The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.
Bill O'Reilly
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
David Mamet
