David Mamet Quotes
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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Well, to the law, you’re an accessory. Before the fact.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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We don't have to worry about making it interesting; all we have to worry about is getting rid of the pig.
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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
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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.
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My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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Where have you been, Shelly? Bruce and Harriet Nyborg. Do you want to see the memos...? They're nuts... they used to call in every week ... Did you see how they were living? ... The people are insane. They just like talking to salesmen.
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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
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Then I'm over the fucking top and you owe me a Cadillac. And I don't want any fucking shit and I don't give a shit.
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I find out whose fuckin' cousin you are, I'm gonna go to him and figure out a way to have your ass, FUCK YOU!
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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Patel? Fuck you. Fuckin' Shiva handed him a million dollars, told him sign the deal, he wouldn't sign. And Vishnu, too into the bargain.
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Or me lying in the... Let me tell ya... Lying in bed the next day, she brought me cafe au lait, she gives me a cigarette. My balls feel like concrete. Eh?
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Cop couldn't find his fucking couch, the living room.
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The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
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That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.
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They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.