David Mamet Quotes

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

David Mamet

Recitation: by Male by Female

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YouthEnoughFortunate

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Andre Maurois

SmileSelf-ConfidenceMoreEveryone

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

Angelo Scola

WorldChurchKnowDifficultFault

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Ann McLane Kuster

LifeFamilyPoliticsWayOurSort

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

John Templeton

FocusSpiritualWealthNowMore

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Stephen Fry

FunnyAgeMeYouNeedRemind

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

Robert F. Engle

FinanceRisksBehaviorChooseTake

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Rod Stewart

WorkJustHairstylesTriedMany

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

Mary Oliver

QualityWordsKindSoundOwnOnly

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Loretta Devine

LifeYouLessonPersonTrueFact

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

Douglas Tompkins

CultureCell PhoneThinkYouPhone

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

Denis Leary

LoveBeachFriendsVeniceSantaLot

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Arthur Henderson

WarEndAimBecomeForeverTerrible

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