David Mamet Quotes

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

David Mamet

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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

CultureAimWillMustMetaphysical

If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.

Joel Grey

LifeTruthYourselfExerciseYou

To shut off coal, or to say you can't have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.

Matt Mead

ThinkYouWrongGoSayWay

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

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The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

Tracy Morgan

LoveLiveGreatestWorkingFiveHe

The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.

Roy Clark

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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Mary Harris Jones

PeopleFactsAmericanMeetingsWant

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

Michelle Pfeiffer

StrongThinkStubbornCommon Sense

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Jules Renard

BeautifulFeetWingsTwoLineVerse

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

Christopher Cross

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The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

Philip E. Berger

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