David Mamet Quotes

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

David Mamet

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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

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The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.

Jesse Spencer

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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Amity Shlaes

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I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

Shirley Temple

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I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Tom Brokaw

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I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

Ruben Studdard

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

Dolly Parton

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The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

Dennis Christopher

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For black Catholics, the papal visit is a time of anticipation but also a time of reflection on their difficult - but important - place within the Catholic Church in America.

Anthea Butler

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It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Arthur Keith

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